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Re:FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly by benatkin on Friday August 20, 2021 @11:34PM (#28253945)
What about GitHub Enterprise? Isn't that running it as a service, which happens to be located inside your machine?
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Re:FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly by NavinF on Saturday August 21, 2021 @12:15AM (#28254122)
That'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/ which is "GPLv2 with a Linking Exception" (equivalent to LGPL)

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Re:FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly by woodruffw on Saturday August 21, 2021 @12:18AM (#28254138)
My 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.
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Re:FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly by woodruffw on Saturday August 21, 2021 @12:02AM (#28254068)
GitHub 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.
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