GPL-2.0 is an OSI-approved and FSF free licence
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- Licence classification
- Statement
- The SPDX License List records GPL-2.0-only as OSI approved and FSF free/libre, and the Open Source Initiative lists the GNU General Public License version 2 (SPDX short identifier GPL-2.0) among its approved licences. (as published on 2026-09-27)
- Applies when
- Open source policy approval of Git.
- Applies to
- Git (command-line tools and source tree), including builds distributed by operating systems and Git for Windows