Thank you for filling out a Git bug report! Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue. What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) git init What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) New repo initialized containing no copyright claims What happened instead? (Actual behavior) New repo initialized with a copyright claim in .git/hooks/pre-rebase.sample: # Copyright (c) 2006, 2008 Junio C Hamano What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? There is a file in the fresh repo (copied from the template file git-core/templates/hooks/pre-rebase.sample) which contains a copyright statement, moreover without any licence to use the file. Anything else you want to add: This also happens upon running the 'git clone' command. This is an issue because when users clone a project, they are left with a copyrighted dependency (without any licence), even though the repository itself did not contain that file. This occurs tacitly, and users would be unknowingly violating the copyright if they happened to further convey the file. Please review the rest of the bug report below. You can delete any lines you don't wish to share. [System Info] git version: git version 2.34.1 [Enabled Hooks]
