Redistributed copies must keep notices and include the licence
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- Kind
- Redistribution
- Statement
- GPL-2.0 §1: anyone who distributes verbatim copies of Git's source must publish an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty on each copy, keep intact all notices referring to the licence and to the absence of warranty, and give every recipient a copy of the licence. (licence text Version 2, June 1991; as published on 2026-09-27)
- Applies when
- Distributing Git to parties outside the licensee, for example in a product, appliance, container image or installer given to customers.
- Applies to
- Git (command-line tools and source tree), including builds distributed by operating systems and Git for Windows