A fee may be charged for transferring copies and for warranty
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- Kind
- Commercial
- Statement
- GPL-2.0 §1 allows a distributor of Git to charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy and to offer warranty protection for a fee. Commercial distribution and paid support by third parties are therefore permitted; the licence itself stays free of charge to recipients (§2(b)). (licence text Version 2, June 1991; as published on 2026-09-27)
- Applies when
- Vendors that ship Git in paid products, or sell support or warranty for Git.
- Applies to
- Git (command-line tools and source tree), including builds distributed by operating systems and Git for Windows