From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott Chacon" Subject: re-licensing pkt-line.c code Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:17:52 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "git list" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 25 19:19:18 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KiuUn-0000I8-P0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:19:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754556AbYIYRRy (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:17:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753859AbYIYRRy (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:17:54 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.169]:40158 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752792AbYIYRRx (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:17:53 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so590088wfd.4 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:17:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=uHLF3vWWeNiGjQ4y5SYlh1AnJGXaHYWhLapdyqhu6ZA=; b=ifw8qeKNVyut9uHDHpniD1+LTt2mTLxoVPOGpypnIFwrPxLhI6pb8rBB+oXSHFM9Oo em6DmlDFHpiW8dLu5aCUPq1RThOxMZnH3fF+ivKaPWum5f+XvuFR8J2UANX4fqrQuO2p C5fbwzM/lsJOLmoilZFn1GlZ3cS1cxdDICf7A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=RJ+7GtgMK0KVmOHYiqwgVm/XbvyQsQtSUaeaVcjjiJsNawL6DpHdxRxIdAOjm0HzLC iDTYXiaTPWSMOg+2IyGdU6XPfna65V+LMAGEv2FIvfj9J8OEedPqaYwmjhoBisu2Djm3 zH/j6wlhPGN/PHdOCnqwJcSRdnim/94Mmnj5s= Received: by 10.114.46.6 with SMTP id t6mr49765wat.39.1222363073039; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.22.20 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hey all, I am writing a partial implementation of git in Objective-C so I can get a git server running on an iphone, and hopefully it could eventually be used in a mac desktop app that could be distributed without the git binary. If anyone is interested in the project, you can get it here: http://github.com/schacon/objective-git There are about 20-25 lines of code from pkt-line.c that I think were originally written back in 2005 that I would like to use so I don't have to re-implement them. It is pretty generic - it is just the code that converts an int into a 4 char hex and back that is placed at the beginning of several of the network protocol lines. http://github.com/schacon/objective-git/tree/master/ObjGitServerHandler.m#L554 I have to relicense this, since I can't legally distribute my source code for the iphone app due to Apples f**king NDA. I would like to release my ObjectiveGit project under the MIT (or, alternately, LGPL). Is Linus the right person to ask for this permission? What is the best way to do so? I could come up with an alternate way to accomplish the same thing, but it seems like a waste of time to do so, and helpful to nobody. Thanks, Scott