License of Git-For-Windows

[Péťa Tománek]

Hello,

I would like to ask under what license is the Git-For-Windows released, because I wasn't able to find it either on official website or on github project folder.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Petr

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi

On Wed, 10 May 2017, Péťa Tománek wrote:

> I would like to ask under what license is the Git-For-Windows released,
> because I wasn't able to find it either on official website or on github
> project folder.

I see this in the README at the bottom of
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/:

Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License
version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses,
compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds
with help of a group of hackers around the net.

You also see the COPYING file there, containing a copy of the GPLv2.

The same license is shown first thing when you install Git for Windows.

Further, it is also clarified in the Release Notes that you should read
when you install Git for Windows (you can re-read the release notes here:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/master/ReleaseNotes.md):

Licenses

Git is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.

Git for Windows also contains Embedded CAcert Root Certificates. For
more information please go to
https://www.cacert.org/policy/RootDistributionLicense.php.

This package contains software from a number of other projects
including Bash, zlib, curl, msmtp, tcl/tk, perl, MSYS2 and a number
of libraries and utilities from the GNU project, licensed under the
GNU General Public License. Likewise, it contains Perl which is dual
licensed under the GNU General Public License and the Artistic License.

If you have a splendid idea how to make all of this more visible, I would
warmly welcome a Pull Request to make it so.

Ciao,
Johannes

[Péťa Tománek]

Hello,

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:

If you have a splendid idea how to make all of this more visible, I would
warmly welcome a Pull Request to make it so.

I have added my suggestions in FAQ ( git-for-windows/git/wiki/FAQ ) as well as into web pages ( git-for-windows/git-for-windows.github.io/index.html - text ) and web pages styling ( git-for-windows/git-for-windows.github.io/css/style.css - added h4 ).

I think that those changes could make it easier to understand under what license this amazing product is.

Thank you for your fast answer,

Petr

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Péťa,

On Wed, 10 May 2017, Péťa Tománek wrote:

> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Johannes Schindelin <
> Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > If you have a splendid idea how to make all of this more visible, I
> > would warmly welcome a Pull Request to make it so.
>
> I have added my suggestions in FAQ ( git-for-windows/git/wiki/FAQ )

M'kay. I am not too much of a fan the way you did it, as you copy-pasted
the text without a link to the original.

In the meantime, I edited the original text to reflect the fact that msmtp
is not bundled any longer. And this update is missing from the wiki edit
you made, showing how easy it is for that copy-pasted text to become
stale.

> as well as into web pages (
> git-for-windows/git-for-windows.github.io/index.html - text ) and web
> pages styling ( git-for-windows/ git-for-windows.github.io/css/style.css
> - added h4 ).

Did you mean to open a Pull Request? I ask because I do not see any.

Ciao,
Johannes

[Péťa Tománek]

Hello Johannes,

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:

M'kay. I am not too much of a fan the way you did it, as you copy-pasted
the text without a link to the original.

these were the mocks. I'm really sorry if I made any inconvenience.

Did you mean to open a Pull Request? I ask because I do not see any.

Well I was not sure if I should create pull requests as I was almost sure that it would not be the correct one (mocks as I said). But I created them now to let you see what I had in my mind. The #13 is just for cascades (any h4 styling was missing) - I think it could be accepted.. The #14 is with license text and there I think a lot has to be thought about before any acceptance.

Thank you very much for checking the edits and looking into it.

Cheers,

Petr

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Péťa,

On Thu, 11 May 2017, Péťa Tománek wrote:

> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Johannes Schindelin <
> Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > M'kay. I am not too much of a fan the way you did it, as you
> > copy-pasted the text without a link to the original.
>
> these were the mocks. I'm really sorry if I made any inconvenience.

No, no, sorry, I did not mean to say you should not have done it. I meant
to say that I would like it to be improved somehow to address this concern
of mine.

I tried my hand at it, could you have a look at tell me what you think?

> > Did you mean to open a Pull Request? I ask because I do not see any.
>
> Well I was not sure if I should create pull requests as I was almost sure
> that it would not be the correct one (mocks as I said). But I created them
> now to let you see what I had in my mind. The #13 is just for cascades (any
> h4 styling was missing) - I think it could be accepted.. The #14 is with
> license text and there I think a lot has to be thought about before any
> acceptance.

I merged #13 and commented on #14.

> Thank you very much for checking the edits and looking into it.

Thanks for contributing! That puts you into a very special group ;-)

Ciao,
Johannes