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Why GPL? #1085

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GPLv2 with linking exception

pygit2 uses the same license as libgit2.

So why libgit2 uses this license? Quoting @vmg :

it uses code sourced from Git, whose authors requested we maintain the GPL and allowed us to add a linking exception.

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