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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-09-24 14:48:47 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-09-24 14:48:47 -0400
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license the webapp under the AGPL 3+
This means that anyone serving up the webapp to users as a service (ie, without providing any git-annex binary at all to the user) still needs to provide a link to the source code for it, including any modifications they may make. This may make git-annex be covered by the AGPL as a whole when it is built with the webapp. If in doubt, you should ask a lawyer. When git-annex is built with the webapp disabled, no AGPLed code is used. Even building in the assistant does not pull in AGPLed code.
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+git-annex is Free Software.
+
+The majority of git-annex is licensed under the [[GPL]], version 3 or
+higher.
+
+The git-annex webapp is licensed under the [[AGPL]], version 3 or higher.
+Note that builds of git-annex that include the webapp may be licensed
+under the AGPL as a whole. git-annex built without the webapp does
+not include this code, so remains GPLed.
+
+git-annex contains a variety of other code, artwork, etc copyright by
+others, under a variety of licences, including the [[LGPL]], BSD,
+MIT, and Apache 2.0 license. For a detailed overview, and pointers to the
+full licenses of these components, see the COPYRIGHT file in the source.