From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott Chacon" Subject: Re: libgit2 - a true git library Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 17:26:28 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20081031234115.GD14786@spearce.org> <20081101010011.GG14786@spearce.org> <20081101010824.GE29036@artemis.corp> <20081101014336.GI14786@spearce.org> <20081101225714.GD15463@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Nicolas Pitre" , "Pierre Habouzit" , david@lang.hm, git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 02 01:31:08 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 1KwQs0-0006G0-1E for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:31:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751671AbYKBA0a (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:26:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751574AbYKBA0a (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:26:30 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:8126 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751403AbYKBA03 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:26:29 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1062520wah.21 for ; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:26:28 -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:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=RWPgizTEEZexa3PRpkgHmZh+HDnxOhUhCM9ZoHphPBA=; b=M0JDPkP0JfhQuLFdRyuMZmzQew9W+fYGgLbHGgQ57Gl8ac7/etZI8EAD3Lgte46nN8 yiLFytz+K1izZTABe58T0ir8V3L+NJccCjsaRUVL8SHDtiwC/kwsZpp67J9kAUb0tY65 imNG59pFw39I97yfUg5Vn7e5sWxQ6bUjiN5GI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=oqYDR33u4j+bpCY5UGbMrCEVPN+Es31uGG/RD8A8k65H9rctRJyVSMlG7OXU/xbJqq KGuhBoeB7ABcaPpuraolJMTp74fmc+rLo1wueLpLA9iM1ohnm7+lv9IEAUMIsaOEHTfV R8VYYQ/ypzKFV1iauFccL2PMhKb4NhPqew2qA= Received: by 10.114.178.1 with SMTP id a1mr11474234waf.20.1225585588427; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.135.18 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Nov 2008 17:26:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20081101225714.GD15463@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I'm sorry - why is that better than LGPL? Wouldn't it be better to use a license that people have heard of rather than one that can't be looked up or it's implications easily researched? What is this affording the library that offsets the headaches of everyone trying to figure out if they can use it or not? Scott On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >> >> > My take on the consensus for the license part of the discussion is >> > that libgit2 should be under the "GPL gcc library" license. >> > >> > BTW, I can't actually find a copy of that license; the only thing >> > I can locate in the GCC SVN tree is a copy of the LGPL. >> >> The exception is usually found at the top of files constituting >> libgcc.a. One example is gcc/config/arm/ieee754-df.S. ;-) > > Headers updated. Its now GPL+gcc library exception. > > Not that the 5 lines of useful code there really needs copyright, > but hey, whatever. > > -- > Shawn. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >