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From: "Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:09:25 +0100
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 22:00, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> I doubt it.  Most of that code was written with the execute-once
> mentality.  And with the we-have-posix mentality.
>
> Two things we do not _want_ in libgit2.

But at least with permission from the authors we're allowed to look at
the original code without preventing us from licensing the new code as
GPL+exception ;).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier