Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing

["Kristian Høgsberg" <krh@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 21:59 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> I've been working quite a lot on git -> libgit2 code moving,
> but the licensing stuff is a bit depressing, as I can't know
> if the work I'm doing is for nothing or not.
> 
> The license decided for libgit2 is "GPL with gcc exception".
> Those who are OK with relicensing their contributions under
> that license for the purpose of libgit2, can you please say
> so?
> 
> I'm planning on writing a tool for this that will have "ok",
> "not ok" and "ask-each-patch" as options.
> 
> The list of people whose position I know is rather short.
> Please correct me if you're on it and would like not to be.
> Junio C. Hamano		ask
> Johannes Schindelin	ok
> Shawn O. Pearce		ok
> Andreas Ericsson	ok
> Pierre Habouzit		ok
> Brian Gernhardt		ok
> 
> 
> I've put everyone who "owns" more than 500 lines of code
> on the bcc list, figuring your permission is important
> but that you don't want the hundreds (well, one can hope)
> of emails from people saying "ok". The list of major owners
> was generated with "git showners *.c" in a worktree from
> the next branch of git.git.

You're welcome to use any of the code I've written under the GPL +
exception license, though most of it is probably not that useful, as
it's mostly porting shell commands to builtins.  I'm very happy to see
this effort start up, as I've been tempted to do something similar
myself :)

cheers,
Kristian