merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >>>>>> "Drew" == Drew Northup <drew.northup@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Drew> He also clearly stated that he's not calling git command-line tools... > > Drew> "Gitbox neither links (statically or dynamically) against Git nor uses > Drew> custom interfaces to interact with it. Git binaries are provided for > Drew> your convenience only." > > Huh? How do you get "not using git CLI" there? He's not using *custom* > interfaces, but the *standard* interfaces are more than enough. > > He's made new porcelein, and using the plumbing directly. That's > exactly why we have plumbing in git, right? That agrees with my reading of the page. GPLv2 section 3 (c) allows distribution of compiled executable without source by only pointing at the place the distributor got an offer to the source code when the distributor got the compiled executable it is passing on, and that is quite close to (but not exactly is --- I think the distributor compiled the executable, not passing on) what the Gitbox site is doing (i.e. distributing executable without distributing the source). However, 3 (c) is allowed only for noncommercial distributor that passes compiled executable along from its upstream source, so that part may need to be fixed, I suspect, to comply with section 3 by going in either subsections 3 (a) or 3 (b) route. IANAL of course. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html