From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: GSoC 2010 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:32:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20100212080620.GA31719@dcvr.yhbt.net> <20100212091635.GA22942@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Mike Hommey , Eric Wong , Daniel Barkalow , Jeff King , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Git List To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 12 10:33:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nfrth-0004eU-R0 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:33:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751641Ab0BLJdJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:33:09 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f179.google.com ([209.85.221.179]:37400 "EHLO mail-qy0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750963Ab0BLJdH (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:33:07 -0500 Received: by qyk9 with SMTP id 9so599931qyk.22 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:33:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=953dp6AZZXwJpNMV3kUaRo+ul4xexJQzFvldyRRaTt0=; b=mDwDoVWyYNXj8T8d1Epp9log4chAvf1mNZt+kLGBtKjqQPCxsXkEqPmzozM4lf+EfS jifTKqyPWtohtGl+Oqjc7bZLTgdRxfx9lXLekAPIcvGYX571QbHiqvCz/Yt1ruMxa7Vd 72Ory1ndfNIg2IxMmcVHKCB3RaKq8y4J+7TNY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=Gbbl0jm4EhON6OjXOdkX4sA9bSESYfrMyoU5Q+3mylWkPdtmkbExYu78FwJT+Y0S6h smKV8O7BwzSodqaotz5UPz9FaHBoSsG1hUXA4oouLO1vM6l+nA1syGhDQDnAdzh2s9Ci XawODbhu5wAlucTNBpkZKv0eymVrxKpTfVwoc= Received: by 10.224.83.133 with SMTP id f5mr558610qal.223.1265967184106; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:33:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heya, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:35, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: >> It is already mentioned on the wiki that this would probably be a >> problem, license-wise. (the svn library is Apache license, which is >> incompatible with GPLv2) Yeah, guess who put that there ;). > So git-remote-svn would have to be under an Apache-compatible license, so > what? It is not as if git-remote-svn was a derivative work of Git, just > because it abides by a very simple command-line interface that happens to > be defined in Git, but would work anywhere else, too. Excellent point, I think we could safely argue that if we only expose 'import' and 'export' (so adhere to the fast-import/fast-export format that is already widely used), that it is indeed not a derative work. Also, becaus of how we set up the remote helpers (as drop in binaries), we shouldn't have to worry too much about distributing? -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier