From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brown Subject: Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:30:52 -0800 Message-ID: <20081115043051.GA21608@linode.davidb.org> References: <491DE6CC.6060201@op5.se> <20081114234658.GA2932@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andreas Ericsson , Git Mailing List To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 15 05:32:16 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 1L1CpQ-0005Fw-3Z for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:32:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752060AbYKOEa4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:30:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751963AbYKOEa4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:30:56 -0500 Received: from linode.davidb.org ([72.14.176.16]:53514 "EHLO mail.davidb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752009AbYKOEa4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:30:56 -0500 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 4.69 #1 (Debian)) id 1L1Co8-0005gR-1g; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:30:52 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081114234658.GA2932@spearce.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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