Git Rule

Git is licensed free of charge

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Kind: Price
Statement: The GPL-2.0 text under which Git is released states that the Program is licensed free of charge, and the official Git website describes Git as released under GPL version 2.0, an open source licence. The Git project publishes no price list, no licence metric and no paid edition; money reaches the project as donations accepted by Software Freedom Conservancy on its behalf. (licence text Version 2, June 1991; as published on 2026-09-27)
Applies when: Any acquisition of Git from the Git project, an operating system distribution or Git for Windows.
Applies to: Git (command-line tools and source tree), including builds distributed by operating systems and Git for Windows