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by lvh 3408 days ago
Define "your code which you put in a repository"?

Disclaimer: IANAL. AGPL enforcement is generally a little unclear. If you ship a binary, you have to make the source available. If your binary answers on the wire but you don't ship it you (under the APL) have to make the source available.

So, uh, yes -- as long as you never use it, which seems a little silly of a definition?

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> Define "your code which you put in a repository"?

... Code you add with the equivalent of `git add; git commit`. I.e. suppose git was AGPL instead of GPL, that would have no effect on the license of say, Rust (MIT+Apache) regardless of the fact that git is used in the development.

My apologies, I completely misunderstood your question.

Again, (A)GPL enforcement is unclear and subject of real debate, but my understanding is that nobody thinks virality impacts data being used by the program (e.g. source code in a VCS).