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 21:00:39 -0800 Message-ID: <20081115050039.GC2932@spearce.org> References: <491DE6CC.6060201@op5.se> <20081114234658.GA2932@spearce.org> <20081115043051.GA21608@linode.davidb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andreas Ericsson , Git Mailing List To: David Brown X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 15 06:05:56 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 1L1DLH-0002Ci-9r for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:05:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751153AbYKOFAl (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750847AbYKOFAl (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:41 -0500 Received: from george.spearce.org ([209.20.77.23]:39365 "EHLO george.spearce.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750839AbYKOFAk (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:40 -0500 Received: by george.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C514F381FF; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:00:39 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081115043051.GA21608@linode.davidb.org> 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: David Brown wrote: > 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. I don't know. When I read it myself I assumed dynamic linking would also be OK. This is why I prefer programs; I don't read legalese so I can't quite figure out what the statement means. At least with C its a little less vague. ;-) -- Shawn.