From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Git doc: GPL2 does not apply to repo data Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 03:16:50 -0500 Message-ID: <20160201081650.GB26215@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <1454274011-4880-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> <6D15DFBB73355B4E9EFB1AD5EF9FCA31842442AA@NZ-EXCHANGE1.fphcare.com> <1591708020.2493723.1454312995839.JavaMail.zimbra@imag.fr> <20160201081431.GA26215@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Jonathan Smith , Junio C Hamano , Philip Oakley , GitList To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 01 09:17:06 2016 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 1aQ9fR-0008JL-Uk for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:17:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751675AbcBAIQy (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2016 03:16:54 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:35374 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751616AbcBAIQx (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2016 03:16:53 -0500 Received: (qmail 31151 invoked by uid 102); 1 Feb 2016 08:16:53 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.1) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 03:16:53 -0500 Received: (qmail 22826 invoked by uid 107); 1 Feb 2016 08:17:18 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 03:17:18 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 01 Feb 2016 03:16:50 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160201081431.GA26215@sigill.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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