Re: Licensing and the library version of git

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:54:54PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> said that...
> In general libraries should be licensed LGPL to avoid the license
> incompatibility problem. A GPL library forces the main app to be GPL
> too.

But really another main app here (Git) is ending up in the library.

You can still always use the "Git ABI" - the commands. Or you could try
having a GPL'd "Git/Eclipse toolkit" which would reduce the barrier to
only single exec per Git invocation or something, but it would be
probably somewhat tricky on the derived works playground.

> You may like trying to force GPL onto the app but many apps are
> stuck with the license they have and can't be changed since there is
> no way to contact the original developers.

At this point, git-shortlog lists exactly 200 people (at least entries
like Unknown or No name are all linux@horizon.com ;-).

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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