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What about GitHub Enterprise? Isn't that running it as a service, which happens to be located inside your machine?
by benatkin 5y ago
What about GitHub Enterprise? Isn't that running it as a service, which happens to be located inside your machine?
- woodruffw 5y agoGitHub Enterprise is proprietary software. To the best of my (external observer's) knowledge, it has no GPL code in it. If it does, then that's probably a licensing violation, but IANAL.
- NavinF 5y agoThat's a really good question! Has anyone here used the self-hosted version of GitHub Enterprise? Did they really reimplement git? Edit: Apparently GitHub uses https://libgit2.org/ https://libgit2.org/ which is "GPLv2 with a Linking Exception" (equivalent to LGPL)
- woodruffw 5y agoMy understanding of GHE is that it uses libgit2 internally, which in turn has a linking exception in its license (just like GCC and glibc). It’s unlikely that they’re violating GPL in that particular way.