From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git-fetch in 1.5.4 fails versus 1.5.3.8 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:54:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20080205050741.GA4624@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20080207042332.GA7632@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20080207142322.GC18497@mail-vs.djpig.de> <20080207201445.GD18497@mail-vs.djpig.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Anand Kumria , git@vger.kernel.org To: Frank Lichtenheld X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 07 21:56:46 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 1JNDna-0001Z9-21 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:56:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933463AbYBGUzg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:55:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762525AbYBGUzf (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:55:35 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:47669 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933396AbYBGUzc (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:55:32 -0500 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m17KsV3M004463 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:54:32 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m17KsUmb021621; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:54:31 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20080207201445.GD18497@mail-vs.djpig.de> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.714 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Easy to say for someone who only distributes source code... (AFAIK > anyway) Sure. But I'd like to point out that there are tons of distributiors of Linux _and_ other operating systems - with real lawyers involved - that distribute things compiled with OpenSSL, and nobody sane actually thinks it is a problem. The fact that the OpenSSL license isn't compatible with GPL is a total non-issue: people compile GPL'd programs against totally proprietary libraries or other non-GPL-compatible things. > Anyway, since Debian will not change its opinion about this, my answer > was in the context of the question obviously useful. Whether it was > generally correct is probably off-topic here. Umm. You claimed that the result would not be "distributable". I just both corrected that total misunderstanding (on part of the Debian crowd) _and_ said that even crazy Debian people can work around it. So please don't say that things are not "distributable" when they clearly are. Linus