From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edesio Costa e Silva Subject: Re: Approxidate licensing Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:33:25 -0300 Message-ID: <20061010183325.GC12993@softaplic.com.br> References: <1073a5540610101128q3fb9f68fsf3a28fbda20927d1@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Edesio Costa e Silva Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Edesio Costa e Silva , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 10 20:33:53 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 1GXMQ8-00063l-22 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:33:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965093AbWJJSdg convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:33:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965094AbWJJSdg (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:33:36 -0400 Received: from master.softaplic.com.br ([200.162.94.241]:33991 "EHLO overlord.softaplic.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965093AbWJJSdf (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:33:35 -0400 Received: from edesio by overlord.softaplic.com.br with local (Exim 4.50) id 1GXMPt-0004lV-Cj; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:33:25 -0300 To: barkalow@iabervon.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1073a5540610101128q3fb9f68fsf3a28fbda20927d1@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Try the TCL modules that parse date and time (tclGetDate.y and tclClock.c). They are licensed BSD style. Ed=E9sio > From: Daniel Barkalow > Date: Oct 10, 2006 2:39 PM > Subject: Approxidate licensing > To: Linus Torvalds , Junio C Hamano > , dwmw2@infradead.org > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org >=20 >=20 > I'm working on an LGPL project (for my company; it's obscure enough a= nd > we're lazy enough that we're not really distributing it in general in > either source or binary form), and I'm running into the usual date pa= rsing > issue (i.e., all the standard functions are broken in various ways). = My > plan has been to write my own, but it's hard to get the motivation wh= en > approxidate exists, works well, and is open source. >=20 > Would the three of you agree to license date.c under the LGPL or BSD?= It > looks like you're the only authors of non-trivial changes [1]. And it= seems > reasonable to want the date parsing thing under non-GPL terms outside= of > git. >=20 > -Daniel > *This .sig left intentionally blank* >=20 > [1] git log and git blame are pretty impressive, but they don't quite > catch that most of date.c was written by David as part of commit-tree= =2Ec, > then Tony replaced it with a version that uses curl, then Edgar separ= ated > it out into a date.c and simultaneously reverted Tony's changes. On t= he > other hand, the commit messages do say this, and you can use git log = and > git blame to verify that they're true. The only thing they don't let > you verify is what the differences are between the date.c added in > ecee9d9e and the similar part of commit-tree.c in 812666c8. If someon= e > wants to make git blame *really* magic, date.c would be a good test c= ase. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html