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From: "Cedric Vivier" <cedricv@neonux.com>
To: "Mike Ralphson" <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Git mailing list" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	mbp@sourcefrog.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use natural ordering to display list of branches.
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:54:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d45085aa0806060154p58e7e87dk636d519cbdcf2dc7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460806060142y7edc92e4y7cbad6b3cfad1eac@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/6/5 Cedric Vivier <cedricv@neonux.com>:
>> +  strnatcmp.c -- Perform 'natural order' comparisons of strings in C.
>> +  Copyright (C) 2000, 2004 by Martin Pool <mbp sourcefrog net>
>
> IANAL, but I'm not 100% sure clauses 2a or 3 are strictly GPL
> compatible (especially as "altered from" is unlikely to be interpreted
> in only one way).
>
> Perhaps we can ask the original author (cc'd) if he is prepared to
> license it under GPL2?
>

I've found a discussion on the Apache mailing-list where the author,
Martin Pool seems to ack that this is ok to include his code in GPL'ed
code or even to relicense it :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/10/msg00016.html

Also maybe we could use glibc's strverscmp instead, but am not sure of
its portability ?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-06  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-05 17:41 [PATCH] use natural ordering to display list of branches Cedric Vivier
2008-06-05 18:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-05 19:29   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-05 19:43     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-05 20:08   ` Cedric Vivier
2008-06-05 20:36     ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-06-06 16:46   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-06-06 18:11     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-06 18:36       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-06 19:03         ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-06-06 21:04       ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-06 21:17         ` Cedric Vivier
2008-06-06 21:23           ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-06 23:06           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-06 23:11             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-06 23:13               ` Asheesh Laroia
2008-06-07  4:42               ` Jeff King
2008-06-07  0:13             ` Cedric Vivier
2008-06-07  0:17               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-07  0:43                 ` Cedric Vivier
2008-06-07  6:53                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-06 21:46     ` しらいしななこ
2008-06-15 23:26   ` Ask Bjørn Hansen
2008-06-06  8:42 ` Mike Ralphson
2008-06-06  8:54   ` Cedric Vivier [this message]
2008-06-06  9:06     ` Mike Ralphson
2008-06-09  8:00     ` Andreas Ericsson

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