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by Piskvorrr 1945 days ago
That essentially boils down to the color of the bits. In other words, what git log says is a different bit color (technical) from what the EULA (legal) says, and you can't meaningfully use the legal-colored bits in a technical context and vice versa. In other words, if it breaks, you get to keep all the nasty pieces, not the company, because the EULA says so.

("colored bits" metaphor is from this seminal essay: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 )