From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: Licensing and the library version of git Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:40:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20060727014040.GA32742@spearce.org> References: <9e4733910607261436v4c0802e5v7301e904593f9bab@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 27 03:40:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5uro-0000dt-T5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:40:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750773AbWG0Bkq (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:40:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751854AbWG0Bkq (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:40:46 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:51152 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750773AbWG0Bkp (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:40:45 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1G5urY-0007l4-SD; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:40:33 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EA17820FB77; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:40:41 -0400 (EDT) To: Jon Smirl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9e4733910607261436v4c0802e5v7301e904593f9bab@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jon Smirl wrote: > Can the library version of git be licensed LGPL instead of GPL? If it > is GPL then it can't be linked into non-GPL projects like Eclipse. True. But I have a pure-Java implementation of portions of GIT: - pack file reader, including delta decompression; - loose object reader (sans new pack header format); - loose object writer (blobs, trees, commits, no tags); - ref reader/basic resolver; - ref writer; - new repository creation; - tree and commit parsing; - n-way tree structure diff (no blob content diff); and Eclipse UI for: - resource decorator showing object state; - rename tracking (well, automatic delete then add); - add file/folder to repository; - delete file/folder from repository; - save workspace state to a tree; - periodically flush modified files into blobs; but I need UI still for creating a commit. I'd like to get that code finished this week and get the repository posted on the web for others to start messing around with if they are interested. This project has just been slow going for me as I'm working looooong hours at my day job. :-) -- Shawn.