From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Apple violating git LGPL? Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:41:37 -0400 Message-ID: <20140806204137.GA22592@peff.net> References: <20140806184304.GB21254@peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Robert P Fischer , git@vger.kernel.org To: Tony X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 06 22:41:50 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XF81o-000850-Hr for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 22:41:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753332AbaHFUlk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:41:40 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:47221 "HELO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751549AbaHFUlk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:41:40 -0400 Received: (qmail 13532 invoked by uid 102); 6 Aug 2014 20:41:39 -0000 Received: from c-71-63-4-13.hsd1.va.comcast.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (71.63.4.13) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:41:39 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:41:37 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 01:23:00PM -0700, Tony wrote: > > Also, minor nit, but git is GPL, not LGPL. > > But Apple put a LGPL license in side the folder. See: > https://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Git/Git-48/src/git/LGPL-2.1 Interesting. It starts with: While most of this project is under the GPL (see COPYING), the xdiff/ library and some libc code from compat/ are licensed under the GNU LGPL, version 2.1 or (at your option) any later version and some other files are under other licenses. Check the individual files to be sure. which makes sense. -Peff