From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:16:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitbox
Message-ID: <1302722214.22161.5.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1E5D7DCE-B3B3-4CC7-8F40-4ED48E76907D@gmail.com>


On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 12:09 -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Drew Northup wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 11:16 -0700, Daniel Searles wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I'm curious if Gitbox is in violation of the Git's GPL.
> >> http://www.gitboxapp.com/
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Daniel Searles
> >> Tech Support
> >> Media Lab, Inc.
> >
> > Well, it appears that he may have implemented "git" on his own, or at
> > the very least he's trying to imply that he did.
> >
> > http://www.gitboxapp.com/faq.html#gpl
> 
> He very clearly says that he ships Git, not a reimplementation.

He also clearly stated that he's not calling git command-line tools...

"Gitbox neither links (statically or dynamically) against Git nor uses
custom interfaces to interact with it. Git binaries are provided for
your convenience only."

I'm hoping he'll have a more complete statement for all of us.

-- 
-Drew Northup
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