From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jakub Narebski" Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary (long) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:59:26 +0200 Message-ID: <8fe92b430710040759r5777264aj5ecb09e0252fef9a@mail.gmail.com> References: <8fe92b430710040212u332bb4e5yfa6c10b8236c6301@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Benoit SIGOURE" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 04 16:59:49 2007 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 1IdSAq-0006C7-9f for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:59:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756464AbXJDO72 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:59:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756516AbXJDO72 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:59:28 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.230]:51793 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756427AbXJDO72 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:59:28 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so180552nze for ; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:59:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=p8g+3sWy33bq/P5guO2rRFsO3uBjX5vrGJ2LUvf4Dyg=; b=AcZ9fVCNQEp8gDWyY2A0Wfs77tw3K7AM7h7WB49HBXBoD9JoZRgopTnAr4R2Ik+tAG+LYsn014dA52+5Jt3uyN2Iht0GcP/BYCGL7f3Npoqe1Owyve2Ib75fWvMev65k9CBAGXYfi0f7zCCC5uzIyKylYta3GuqyW4FIzlNEHb8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oWbEbPFt7COSoUjgZu4HsPKstrctH2W5ODvvOVLHjzSPEG+R6RWWW93thduHND93/XQeGiiGYiIlpridT8U7d2/ENUd9gvZX7AaSFrnZoK3Nv5HLT7ba8/s+n7Jlw7+dm1sxTl9vLo0dsEpSa41oBMiekaSb/G4iv3VhB/yKt7w= Received: by 10.114.123.1 with SMTP id v1mr1611445wac.1191509966720; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.202.19 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:59:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/4/07, Benoit SIGOURE wrote: > Hi Jakub, > nice work you've done there. Well done! Half done. But thanks. By the way, I'd put final data from the survey as an attachement at http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007 Currently there is data I used to generate this summary, in CSV format. I have used horrible Perl script to tabularize free-form questions, removing comments etc., and to generate tables in this summary. > On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > Note that Git is GPLv2, and it will probably stay that forever, so you > > are _free_ to start a commercial support scheme for Git, but others > > are free not to choose it. This question is to get to know if there is > > sufficient demand for commercial Git support for it to be viable. > > Once again (AFAIR this was already raised during one of the previous > summary) what's the link between GPLv2 and commercial support? You > seem to imply that because Git won't move to GPLv3, it's a good thing > for potential paid support, or something. I don't quite see how > GPLvX comes into play with commercial support. I'm not a license > expert though. The only link between GPL and commercial support is that GPL does not prohibit commercial support (like noncommercial-free licenses for example), and that having commercial support doesn't mean that license would change to proprietary (it cannot). -- Jakub Narebski