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 22:51:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20081031215155.GC21799@artemis.corp> References: <20081031170704.GU14786@spearce.org> <20081031174745.GA4058@artemis.corp> <20081031214356.GX14786@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="V88s5gaDVPzZ0KCq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=SHA1 Cc: Nicolas Pitre , david@lang.hm, git@vger.kernel.org, Scott Chacon To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 31 22:53:23 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 1Kw1vk-0004Rl-Bq for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:53:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752575AbYJaVwA (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:52:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752297AbYJaVwA (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:52:00 -0400 Received: from pan.madism.org ([88.191.52.104]:40100 "EHLO hermes.madism.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751856AbYJaVv7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:51:59 -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 3E9B03B71E; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:51:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by madism.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 987845EE242; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:51:55 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081031214356.GX14786@spearce.org> 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: --V88s5gaDVPzZ0KCq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:43:56PM +0000, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, david@lang.hm wrote: > > > at the very least you should go from GPLv2 to LGPLv2 for the library. > >=20 > > Sure. >=20 > Well, we cannot do a GPL->LGPL switch on code without author > permission for that sort of re-licensing. >=20 > 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. --=20 =C2=B7O=C2=B7 Pierre Habouzit =C2=B7=C2=B7O madcoder@debia= n.org OOO http://www.madism.org --V88s5gaDVPzZ0KCq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkkLffoACgkQvGr7W6HudhwGlQCfST6TE322s2AgT3saThPA9hsV nTQAoJ44vdVNBfOp9jmpsG/lRqiWumgC =rYeI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --V88s5gaDVPzZ0KCq--