From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: GPL v2 authoritative answer on stored code as a derived work Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:16:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <6D15DFBB73355B4E9EFB1AD5EF9FCA3184242757@NZ-EXCHANGE1.fphcare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jonathan Smith , git@vger.kernel.org To: Philip Oakley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 28 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 1aOhlJ-0007gp-IE for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:17:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934968AbcA1IQ5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2016 03:16:57 -0500 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:63082 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934118AbcA1IQz (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2016 03:16:55 -0500 Received: from virtualbox ([37.24.143.74]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M86PB-1aB2j80eLR-00vgCB; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:16:47 +0100 X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:EPAYRQmJtDjpkqHwifEL4idOpOFIkka64B25X2Sye250spGudXD J22EORy797uZvGXlcBj9jcwZdypuiUxtrXwBmpy4GnouJMKESaR9x+aYsrKPpFQoq6zXz1e wmyj3jxZVa0SnvxeAf/lnbUfpVTuqs9rrUrrTBIXK4M8eF4nr1ThRiS6m1AqhxRecVQ7P2+ jJyuzh04Q+VQB61WnkZ7A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:8kDwv8cap3I=:NxV9P5H1TLUwm5avZ9JlkY +aSzV3pTUgesnjAafLD4LeS/c/lOZx6FuyccA6wFree2ta6PWrjirXL9B0U2r9VzodnipE6IY /AbWDgRSaIG1cH+H1fdnTTSA0uyxnUQXWATE/Z/jFuyD4OqMU/8CRnB3PeEtDqNRxLA6mwRLi Lo9NGsz4jTOqYKgXXTUkCxE+NGMA60uYZQyWRgqHcifTiA+eDIX/WKZIpnkX+10qyFGLIRikW UdAaATsOnrW6WDZOXtDsr6m+14VmB9DT94pCosLW7DokKetSE7sCeGfsXI2LQFQKKUaji1ViZ eOW5GPPHwseja2iJR7otdi9nY+7n/TqVjJoliutgf9dK8Crh2/XYWmVq2uD3M1JjtAlTMLF2o Ckyq95rhpN82osY1trIMguAdCQTj9u6UodavrfuPgEcWqGJyj4TOBARbM6D9Q2G7FKVLVKQzo KahF53fKsufPLM9Ici4AIQE94FuHBGk6gAGsaSWZUplE7HoaO+lTvNPf99BiQ0Cfrbz6hJ1wQ v4ymjhKEV9Z5v91Zc9TZ9RiWeC5KjB95ZEz1rDEaiFSiUbWRe6g0PZWtySt7PxtXH4a1vpI0X WaXksqqv/V3zHgW8j+ykR15n8SrHnF1Ud8Pq+pb0DbQ2ArOwu7ginm+PwXDz6AldFuEbxUDIv qrhL/0+S2ZLDdcF73osn3jjHgXVRnk/ODlAvszrkNz1OOOBQLkZGSVRaIxIwzEVsqDHiLhbrM 0l+pbvdzw83T6XZ9hPffjwxShKLvHX6t8AlBMNEAyOPmKtJ0jo/hsauhw0zr3QSk9bQbVPum Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Philip, On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Philip Oakley wrote: > From: "Junio C Hamano" > > Jonathan Smith writes: > > > > > It's pretty clear that code stored in a Git repository isn't > > > considered a derived work of Git, regardless of whether it is used > > > in a commercial context or otherwise. > > I'm guessing here, but I suspect that while its 'pretty clear' to Jonathan, > that he has met others who aren't so clear or trusting, and it's that > distrustful community that would need convincing. It is not so much distrust as something you could take to court, I guess, because an *authoritative* answer was asked for. Now, the question is a legal one, so it is pretty clear (;-)) to me that only a lawyer could give that answer. Having said that, I know of plenty of companies storing their proprietary code in Git repositories, and I would guess that they cleared that with their lawyers first. Jonathan, please do not take that as any indication that I try to give this answer: if you want an authoritative answer to your question, you really need to consider asking a lawyer. Ciao, Dscho