From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:30:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081115043051.GA21608@linode.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081114234658.GA2932@spearce.org>
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:46:58PM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 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.)
Is this license intended to allow static linking but forbid dynamic
linking into a non-GPL program? It depends on how you interpret
"linked into a combined executable", but that sounds like it
intentionally excludes the dynamic case.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-15 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-14 20:59 git to libgit2 code relicensing Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-14 21:33 ` Martin Koegler
2008-11-14 21:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-11-14 22:57 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-14 22:56 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 17:13 ` Martin Koegler
2008-11-14 23:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-14 23:46 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-15 4:30 ` David Brown [this message]
2008-11-15 5:00 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-15 8:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-15 18:39 ` David Brown
2008-11-15 12:39 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-11-15 13:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-15 19:33 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-11-15 22:12 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-15 18:49 ` David Brown
2008-11-15 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-15 10:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 10:28 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2008-11-15 11:05 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 11:33 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2008-11-15 11:52 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 18:53 ` David Brown
2008-11-16 1:30 ` Daniel Barkalow
[not found] ` <200811151615.42345.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
2008-11-16 11:50 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-16 21:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-16 21:09 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-11-17 7:24 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-17 15:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-17 21:44 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-20 17:41 ` René Scharfe
2008-11-25 15:19 ` Kristian Høgsberg
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