Passing on an upstream source offer is limited to noncommercial distribution
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- Kind
- Redistribution
- Statement
- GPL-2.0 §3(c): forwarding the source offer received from someone else, instead of providing source or a written offer of one's own, is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only when the binary was received with such an offer. Commercial redistributors of Git must use §3(a) or §3(b). (licence text Version 2, June 1991; as published on 2026-09-27)
- Applies when
- Commercial redistribution of Git binaries obtained from a third party.
- Applies to
- Git (command-line tools and source tree), including builds distributed by operating systems and Git for Windows