From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: Gitbox Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:10:52 -0700 Message-ID: <86tye1g32b.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <1302721187.21900.4.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> <1E5D7DCE-B3B3-4CC7-8F40-4ED48E76907D@gmail.com> <1302722214.22161.5.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> <86vcyigcqy.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <7vfwpllw5g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Drew Northup , Joshua Juran , Daniel Searles , git@vger.kernel.org, oleganza@gmail.com To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 14 01:11:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QA9Db-0007As-6z for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:11:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933405Ab1DMXLW (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:11:22 -0400 Received: from lax-gw06.mailroute.net ([199.89.0.106]:47882 "EHLO mail.mroute.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933398Ab1DMXLV (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:11:21 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lax-gw06.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37BCCC5B8; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:11:17 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by lax-gw06.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD32C5B5; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:10:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 05976164D; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:10:52 -0700 (PDT) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.18.5.2; tzolkin = 10 Ik; haab = 10 Pop In-Reply-To: <7vfwpllw5g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:43:39 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano writes: Junio> However, 3 (c) is allowed only for noncommercial distributor that passes Junio> compiled executable along from its upstream source, so that part may need Junio> to be fixed, I suspect, to comply with section 3 by going in either Junio> subsections 3 (a) or 3 (b) route. It's interesting also to note that the GPL uses the term "noncommercial" without ever defining it. Could gitbox argue that it is charging for his code, and not for git, and therefore, it's a "noncommercial" distribution of git which just happens to be aggregated? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion