From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:46:58 -0800 Message-ID: <20081114234658.GA2932@spearce.org> References: <491DE6CC.6060201@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andreas Ericsson , Git Mailing List To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 15 00:48:21 2008 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 1L18Oi-0002Qn-Ey for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:48:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751725AbYKNXrA (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:47:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751536AbYKNXrA (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:47:00 -0500 Received: from george.spearce.org ([209.20.77.23]:55975 "EHLO george.spearce.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751399AbYKNXq7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:46:59 -0500 Received: by george.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0DC49381FF; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:46:58 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > > > > The license decided for libgit2 is "GPL with gcc exception". > > What's the exact language? > > I'm likely ok with GPLv2 + libgcc-like exception, but I'd like to see the > exact one. I haven't followed the discussions much.. The language we are using in libgit2 is taken from libgcc, and is as follows: --8<-- Note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as this project is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, the authors give you unlimited permission to link the compiled version of this file into combinations with other programs, and to distribute those combinations without any restriction coming from the use of this file. (The General Public License restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they cover modification of the file, and distribution when not linked into a combined executable.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 (... the rest of GPL v2 as it appears in git.git ...) -- Shawn.