git-annex/doc/license.mdwn
Joey Hess cb3c9340f8 license the webapp under the AGPL 3+
This means that anyone serving up the webapp to users as a service
(ie, without providing any git-annex binary at all to the user) still needs
to provide a link to the source code for it, including any modifications
they may make.

This may make git-annex be covered by the AGPL as a whole when it is built
with the webapp. If in doubt, you should ask a lawyer.

When git-annex is built with the webapp disabled, no AGPLed code is used.
Even building in the assistant does not pull in AGPLed code.
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git-annex is Free Software.
The majority of git-annex is licensed under the [[GPL]], version 3 or
higher.
The git-annex webapp is licensed under the [[AGPL]], version 3 or higher.
Note that builds of git-annex that include the webapp may be licensed
under the AGPL as a whole. git-annex built without the webapp does
not include this code, so remains GPLed.
git-annex contains a variety of other code, artwork, etc copyright by
others, under a variety of licences, including the [[LGPL]], BSD,
MIT, and Apache 2.0 license. For a detailed overview, and pointers to the
full licenses of these components, see the COPYRIGHT file in the source.