I thought that the grand-parent comment referred to sentences such as this from the article: "Git can be used as a database for your application." If you inte

I thought that the grand-parent comment referred to sentences such as this from the article: "Git can be used as a database for your application." If you intend to distribute your application, even though you're not copying the git source code directly, nor linking your application directly against a git library, the GPL is rather ambiguous. "Pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs. So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program." -- http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#MereAggregation http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#Me...