From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
david@lang.hm, git@vger.kernel.org,
Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: libgit2 - a true git library
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:51:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081031215155.GC21799@artemis.corp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081031214356.GX14786@spearce.org>
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:43:56PM +0000, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, david@lang.hm wrote:
> > > at the very least you should go from GPLv2 to LGPLv2 for the library.
> >
> > Sure.
>
> Well, we cannot do a GPL->LGPL switch on code without author
> permission for that sort of re-licensing.
>
> That said, I think many authors of git.git code would be more
> comfortable with a GPL->LGPL change, where they wouldn't be OK with
> a GPL->BSD/MIT change. There may be some folks though who still
> wouldn't accept a GPL->LGPL move.
FWIW, I dislike the LGPL for many reasons, and I prefer 100x times a GPL
with GCC kind of exceptions. But if other people hate it, I wont be
be a problem and refuse it.
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Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 17:07 libgit2 - a true git library Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 17:28 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-10-31 17:29 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-10-31 17:47 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 18:41 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 18:54 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 19:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 20:12 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 20:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-31 21:58 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 17:30 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 18:44 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-01 18:48 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 20:29 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 21:58 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-02 1:50 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-03 10:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-02 1:56 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-02 9:25 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 20:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-31 20:29 ` david
2008-10-31 20:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-31 21:43 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 21:50 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 21:51 ` Pierre Habouzit [this message]
2008-10-31 21:31 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 22:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 10:52 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-31 23:24 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-10-31 23:28 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 23:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-01 0:02 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 0:19 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 1:02 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 0:13 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 1:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 1:19 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 1:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 1:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 2:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-01 11:01 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 13:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 17:01 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 20:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-31 23:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-31 23:33 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 23:41 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 23:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-01 0:41 ` david
2008-11-01 1:00 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 1:04 ` david
2008-11-01 1:08 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 1:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 1:38 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 1:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 1:43 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 1:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 22:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-02 0:26 ` Scott Chacon
2008-11-02 1:07 ` Scott Chacon
2008-11-02 1:36 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-02 5:09 ` David Brown
2008-11-03 16:20 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 1:06 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 1:36 ` david
2008-10-31 20:24 ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-31 21:59 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-31 22:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 22:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-01 11:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-31 23:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-31 23:18 ` Bruno Santos
2008-10-31 23:25 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 19:18 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-01 20:42 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-02 2:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-02 9:19 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-03 13:08 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-08 13:26 ` Steve Frécinaux
2008-11-08 14:35 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-08 17:27 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-09 10:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-09 21:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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