Re: Gitbox

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

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"Drew" == Drew Northup [off-list ref] 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.