From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Habouzit Subject: Re: libgit2 - a true git library Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:31:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20081031213114.GA21799@artemis.corp> References: <20081031170704.GU14786@spearce.org> <20081031174745.GA4058@artemis.corp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=SHA1 Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , git@vger.kernel.org, Scott Chacon To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 31 22:32:32 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kw1bb-0006Ve-0b for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:32:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752412AbYJaVbS (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:31:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752442AbYJaVbS (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:31:18 -0400 Received: from pan.madism.org ([88.191.52.104]:42283 "EHLO hermes.madism.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752384AbYJaVbS (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:31:18 -0400 Received: from madism.org (olympe.madism.org [82.243.245.108]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "artemis.madism.org", Issuer "madism.org" (verified OK)) by hermes.madism.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0DF73B708; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:31:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by madism.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 92C8F5EE243; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:31:14 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Face: $(^e[V4D-[`f2EmMGz@fgWK!e.B~2g.{08lKPU(nc1J~z\4B>*JEVq:E]7G-\6$Ycr4<;Z!|VY6Grt]+RsS$IMV)f>2)M="tY:ZPcU;&%it2D81X^kNya0=L]"vZmLP+UmKhgq+u*\.dJ8G!N&=EvlD User-Agent: Madmutt/devel (Linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:24:14PM +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >=20 > > Last but not least, I believe parts of git-core are currently easy to > > just take. For example, any code *I* wrote, I hereby give permission to > > relicense it in any of the following licenses: BSD-like, MIT-like, > > WTFPL. >=20 > First........... is there really a need to re-license it? > If so then the choice of license is IMHO rather important. Hmm yeah, GPL has the viral link issue, and there is a real use of embedding the libgit in many projects. There is a use for it: front-ends to git from editors, for closed-source projects of various sorts, ... All of those right now must do a reimplementation of what they need. As soon as they need some kind of performance, exec()ing git-* commands doesn't fly. Git is currently mostly "GPLv2 or later". A BSDish license was mentioned, because it's the most permissive one and that nobody cared that much, though a LGPL/GPL-with-GCC-exception would probably fly. Many of the people needing a library for libgit are probably reading the list, I'll let them comment. The kind of license you propose would totally suite my needs, and I think, most of the one discussed at GitTogether'08 (except for the eclipse people disliking GPL'ed stuff, but anyways there was the issue of C code being non pure java anyways, so maybe Shawn can comment on that bit, I don't recall the exact specifics I must reckon). OT: FWIW I prefer BSDish licenses (even the MIT actually) for libraries because I believe that computing is overall better if everyone can use the right tool for the task, and I don't want to prevent people from using good stuff (I hope I write good stuff ;P) because of the license. And I don't care about people don't giving back to me, those are not the kind of people who would have given back if it was GPL'ed anyways. But I understand this is a completely personal view, and I'm not even trying to persuade you :) --=20 =C2=B7O=C2=B7 Pierre Habouzit =C2=B7=C2=B7O madcoder@debia= n.org OOO http://www.madism.org --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkkLeSIACgkQvGr7W6Hudhw3MQCcC3uZcmImKz8bQ66DBKyyE1Fg qNkAnR5J+t2eKiXNL+gPpdAFw88xzUnQ =RFTU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV--