From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:10:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Could /Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt be relicensed under a permissive license?
Message-ID: <xmqqimmoq6vw.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <E2770343-BB39-458C-835E-04F0753783C3@mail.ru>

KOLANICH <kolan_n@mail.ru> writes:

> ... the license of git itself is GPL, so I am not
> allowed to use these 2 files to create an own permissive-licensed
> tool reading this file. 

It is a wrong conclusion, isn't it?

GPL copyright protects the expression of the document, but the
copyright protects only the expression, and does not protect the
underlying format itself and the idea behind it.  So I do not see a
need to relicense the documentation text at all.