Apple violating git LGPL?

2014-08-06 Thread Robert P Fischer
Hello, I ran git on my newly-set-up OS X Mavericks machine, and get: $ git Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo. Running 'git --verision' gives the same result. This seems problematic in a few ways, and I am wondering if

Re: Apple violating git LGPL?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles Bailey
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 02:10:08PM -0400, Robert P Fischer wrote: 3. The version of git I ran is clearly NOT a plain vanilla official git, it is a derivative work. Has Apple provided the source code of the special version that I just ran? If not, that would seem to be a violation of the

Re: Apple violating git LGPL?

2014-08-06 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 02:10:08PM -0400, Robert P Fischer wrote: I ran git on my newly-set-up OS X Mavericks machine, and get: $ git Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo. Running 'git --verision' gives the same

Re: Apple violating git LGPL?

2014-08-06 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 08/06/2014 11:43 AM, Jeff King wrote: snippage here 8 8 As it happens, though, they _do_ modify the git that they distribute. I know at least that they bake-in the osxkeychain helper config in away that the user cannot turn off. There may be more changes, but I haven't done a full diff. And

Re: Apple violating git LGPL?

2014-08-06 Thread Tony
Also, minor nit, but git is GPL, not LGPL. But Apple put a LGPL license in side the folder. See: https://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Git/Git-48/src/git/LGPL-2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: Apple violating git LGPL?

2014-08-06 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 01:23:00PM -0700, Tony wrote: Also, minor nit, but git is GPL, not LGPL. But Apple put a LGPL license in side the folder. See: https://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Git/Git-48/src/git/LGPL-2.1 Interesting. It starts with: While most of this project is under the

Re: Apple violating git LGPL?

2014-08-06 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:53:56PM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 08/06/2014 11:43 AM, Jeff King wrote: snippage here 8 8 As it happens, though, they _do_ modify the git that they distribute. I know at least that they bake-in the osxkeychain helper config in away that the user cannot turn