From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Fwd: permission to re-license strbuf subsystem as LGPL Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Brandon Casey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 23 19:12:44 2011 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 1R79Io-0000u8-Cb for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:12:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754022Ab1IWRMh convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:12:37 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:55984 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753988Ab1IWRMg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:12:36 -0400 Received: by fxe4 with SMTP id 4so4013100fxe.19 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:12:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Mc+0o0PGYo4Q1WtndgijeuyxRO3ojMQeb22iT4JbK94=; b=YdIw04/z/VCUnaYiRyY70biCRM951TBfwMl/6RkK28yea3UDF5ucZ725SpUhlcoLoD gcVmXCvKFNOJ37miH0IcocH6NeKcwKN6187ebcBTU9ao6Z3Z/dduYuEcRKEsteLqw18O tMWT1xCeAyCBgaRBf11D/WIID1q4xilk2kgPE= Received: by 10.223.49.213 with SMTP id w21mr5444104faf.44.1316797955575; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abwe70.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl. [83.8.228.70]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w6sm11703055fah.0.2011.09.23.10.12.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p8NHC8TB025884; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:12:18 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id p8NHC2jw025880; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:12:02 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Brandon Casey writes: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Brandon Casey > Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:21 PM > Subject: permission to re-license strbuf subsystem as LGPL >=20 > To those who have contributed to git's strbuf subsystem, >=20 > I'd like to turn git's strbufs into a library. =A0So with your consen= t > I'd like to re-license the code in strbuf.c and strbuf.h, and any > compat/ dependencies as LGPL so that I can create a strbuf library. That's a laudable goal. Do you plan on librarizing other universal mini-libraries, like parseopt or test-lib? I wonder if for example "perf" tool in Linux kernel sources (userspace companion to perf events subsystem) will move to using it; currently it reuses some of internal git minilibraries, IIRC strbuf and parseopt included. By the way, how the 'strbuf' from git (which I think was created among others to avoid additional external dependencies) differs from existing C (not C++) string libraries, like 'bstring'[1], The Better String Library, or the C libraries in http://bstring.sourceforge.net/fe= atures.html? [1]: http://bstring.sourceforge.net --=20 Jakub Nar=EAbski