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Re: Gitbox

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 13, 2011, 20:43 UTC
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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
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>>>>>> "Drew" == Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> 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.
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  1. Daniel SearlesApr 13, 2011
  2. Joshua JuranApr 13, 2011
  3. Drew NorthupApr 13, 2011
  4. Joshua JuranApr 13, 2011
  5. Drew NorthupApr 13, 2011
  6. Joshua JuranApr 13, 2011
  7. Randal L. SchwartzApr 13, 2011
  8. Drew NorthupApr 13, 2011
  9. Taylor HedbergApr 13, 2011
  10. Joshua JuranApr 13, 2011
  11. Tim SmithApr 13, 2011
  12. Sitaram ChamartyApr 14, 2011
  13. Vincent van RavesteijnApr 14, 2011
  14. Drew NorthupApr 14, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 13, 2011
  16. Randal L. SchwartzApr 13, 2011
  17. Jakub NarebskiApr 13, 2011
  18. Randal L. SchwartzApr 13, 2011

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