On Sunday 27 January 2013 18:52:58 Michael Haggerty wrote: > I have a question about the license of contrib/hooks/post-commit-email. > I had assumed that since it is in the git project, which is GPLv2, and > since it contains no contrary information, it would by implication also > fall under GPLv2. But the file itself contains no explicit license > information, and it is not clear to me that the "signed-off-by" line > implies a particular license, either. (The signed-off-by *does* seem to > imply that the source code is under some kind of open source license, > but not which one.) Keeping up with the git mailing list got a bit much, but my original filters to sort messages from it into a (now hidden) folder where still in place. Michael contacted me independently, which was enough of a prod to see this. My apologies to everyone; I've been lax supporting the script -- I never really expected it to be as widely used as it has been, I was always expecting someone would come along and replace it so I'm pleased that Michael has done so (although it's a little disheartening to read of it being called "hacky", when I tried very hard to make it as clear and modular as I could). > If somebody can explain what license the code is under and how they come > to that conclusion, I would be very grateful. > > And if Andy Parkins (the original author) is listening, please indicate > whether you had any intent *other* than GPLv2. I intended it to be under the same license as Git. I had read in one of the patch submission files (which I can't seem to find now) that all submissions were considered part of git. > For anybody who is interested, the file was first committed in > 4557e0de5b and has been modified by several authors since then. I haven't looked at it for a long time. I can't speak for the other authors, but for any part of it that is still mine -- anyone is free to do anything they wish with it. > Given the pretty clear open-sourciness of the script, I don't think this > has to be made into a big issue. But it would be nice to state the > license explicitly for future users' information. If an explicit declaration is needed, I am happy to give it. Let me know what form this should take and I'll supply it. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx -- 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