From: Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>
To: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Cc: Daniel Searles <dsearles@medialab.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, oleganza@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Gitbox
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:24:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5F5479DB-511E-4ADC-8B71-5D7C801ECEAF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302722214.22161.5.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Drew Northup wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 12:09 -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
>
>> On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Drew Northup wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 11:16 -0700, Daniel Searles wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> I'm curious if Gitbox is in violation of the Git's GPL.
>>>> http://www.gitboxapp.com/
>>>
>>> Well, it appears that he may have implemented "git" on his own, or
>>> at
>>> the very least he's trying to imply that he did.
>>>
>>> http://www.gitboxapp.com/faq.html#gpl
>>
>> He very clearly says that he ships Git, not a reimplementation.
>
> He also clearly stated that he's not calling git command-line tools...
I wonder why he would ship them, then.
> "Gitbox neither links (statically or dynamically) against Git nor uses
> custom interfaces to interact with it. Git binaries are provided for
> your convenience only."
Calling execve() is not dynamic linking, that I'm aware of.
> I'm hoping he'll have a more complete statement for all of us.
I think you've misinterpreted his words, but I agree that a
clarification to set minds at ease would be appropriate.
Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-13 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-13 18:16 Gitbox Daniel Searles
2011-04-13 18:55 ` Gitbox Joshua Juran
2011-04-13 18:59 ` Gitbox Drew Northup
2011-04-13 19:09 ` Gitbox Joshua Juran
2011-04-13 19:16 ` Gitbox Drew Northup
2011-04-13 19:24 ` Joshua Juran [this message]
2011-04-13 19:41 ` Gitbox Randal L. Schwartz
2011-04-13 20:04 ` Gitbox Drew Northup
2011-04-13 20:26 ` Gitbox Taylor Hedberg
2011-04-13 20:29 ` Gitbox Joshua Juran
2011-04-13 22:56 ` Gitbox Tim Smith
2011-04-14 9:52 ` Gitbox Sitaram Chamarty
2011-04-14 10:03 ` Gitbox Vincent van Ravesteijn
2011-04-14 12:34 ` Gitbox Drew Northup
2011-04-13 20:43 ` Gitbox Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <1C18B4FB-BB10-4AC7-8952-D477CB4EF289@medialab.com>
2011-04-13 22:13 ` Gitbox Randal L. Schwartz
2011-04-13 23:10 ` Gitbox Randal L. Schwartz
2011-04-13 19:18 ` Gitbox Jakub Narebski
[not found] <BANLkTikfCDm-5Yde=2Cm-ROc1dcMwopvOg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-13 22:23 ` Gitbox Joshua Juran
2011-04-14 1:58 ` Gitbox Chris Perkins
2011-04-14 2:02 ` Gitbox Randal L. Schwartz
2011-04-14 2:28 ` Gitbox Chris Perkins
2011-04-14 2:34 ` Gitbox Randal L. Schwartz
2011-04-14 4:59 ` Gitbox Joshua Juran
2011-04-14 13:55 ` Gitbox Martin Langhoff
[not found] ` <32803572.1897.1302789371873.JavaMail.trustmail@mail1.terreactive.ch>
2011-04-14 14:15 ` Gitbox Victor Engmark
2011-04-14 14:52 ` Gitbox Martin Langhoff
2011-04-15 19:21 ` Gitbox Tim Smith
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