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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Jonathan Smith <Jonathan.Smith@fphcare.co.nz>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	GitList <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Git doc: GPL2 does not apply to repo data
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 03:16:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160201081650.GB26215@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160201081431.GA26215@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 03:14:31AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> On a more serious note, this FAQ (and the one right after) might be
> useful for convincing people:
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLOutput
> 
> Data that git stores is not strictly "output", but I think the answers
> there are relevant. And presumably written or vetted by lawyers, too.

Whoops, I just noticed this is the exact entry from Philip's patch. :-/

Sorry for the noise (and I do think it is a good link to help answer
this question, but I agree with Junio that we can let that FAQ stand on
its own without adding our own amateur-lawyer language to it).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-01  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-25  3:08 GPL v2 authoritative answer on stored code as a derived work Jonathan Smith
2016-01-25 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-27 23:58   ` Philip Oakley
2016-01-28  8:16     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-31 20:51       ` Philip Oakley
2016-01-31 21:00       ` [RFC/PATCH] Git doc: GPL2 does not apply to repo data Philip Oakley
2016-01-31 22:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-31 22:15           ` Jonathan Smith
2016-02-01  7:35             ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-01  7:49               ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-01  8:14                 ` Jeff King
2016-02-01  8:16                   ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-02-01 10:57                   ` Philip Oakley
2016-02-01 10:53           ` Philip Oakley
2016-02-01 11:34             ` Philip Oakley

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