Equivalent download access to source counts as source distribution
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Redistribution
- Statement
- GPL-2.0 §3: where binaries are distributed by offering access to copy them from a designated place, offering equivalent access to copy the source from the same place counts as distributing the source, even if recipients do not copy it. (licence text Version 2, June 1991; as published on 2026-09-27)
- Applies when
- Distributing Git binaries through a download site, package repository or container registry.
- Applies to
- Git (command-line tools and source tree), including builds distributed by operating systems and Git for Windows