{"thread":{"id":"38639","subject":"Fwd: Copyright on wildmatch.c","startedAt":"2015-02-24T08:08:42Z","lastAt":"2015-02-24T22:16:23Z","messageCount":12,"participants":["Guilherme","Duy Nguyen","Anthony Ramine","René Scharfe","Junio C Hamano","Jim Meyering"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"256560","messageId":"CAMDzUtymj21ckMrA87q1TATeWuH6kS_TBrsJ_jVjfeH50CaniA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CAMDzUtyitrK__iE9ykfTuP+Ooq0FwMPp_NVgBfBGbSV52+OPoQ@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Fwd: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Guilherme","fromEmail":"guibufolo@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-02-24T08:08:42Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T08:08:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"guibufolo@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\nI have already posted this to the users mailing list but i guess it's\nmore appropriate to have it here.\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nFrom: Guilherme \nDate: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM\nSubject: Copyright on wildmatch.c\nTo: \"git-users@googlegroups.com\" \n\n\nHello,\n\nI'm trying to implement support for gitignore files in\nthe_silver_searcher (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher).\nIt is a source code optimized version of grep. And it is way faster\nthan ack.\n\nThe problems at hand is that I'd like to use wildmatch.c and some\ndependencies (hex.c, some portions of compat-util.h) but it seems that\ngit is GPL whereas tss is Apache2 licensed.\n\nIs there any possibility to re-license the files above to Apache2 for\nthe TSS project?\n\nIf not, is there any c library that provides support gitignore patterns?\n\nThank you very much,\nBufolo\n"},{"id":"256561","messageId":"CACsJy8Do77QSKSERPE26bKJ0gANB0XmPVBLwb1QKAW4qe0ouAQ@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CAMDzUtymj21ckMrA87q1TATeWuH6kS_TBrsJ_jVjfeH50CaniA@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Duy Nguyen","fromEmail":"pclouds@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-02-24T08:58:25Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T08:58:25Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pclouds@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/720?v=4"},"body":"On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n> Hello,\n>\n> I have already posted this to the users mailing list but i guess it's\n> more appropriate to have it here.\n\nRelated thread about relicensing wildmatch.c for tss\n\nhttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/259764/focus=259798\n\n>\n> ---------- Forwarded message ----------\n> From: Guilherme \n> Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM\n> Subject: Copyright on wildmatch.c\n> To: \"git-users@googlegroups.com\" \n>\n>\n> Hello,\n>\n> I'm trying to implement support for gitignore files in\n> the_silver_searcher (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher).\n> It is a source code optimized version of grep. And it is way faster\n> than ack.\n>\n> The problems at hand is that I'd like to use wildmatch.c and some\n> dependencies (hex.c, some portions of compat-util.h) but it seems that\n> git is GPL whereas tss is Apache2 licensed.\n>\n> Is there any possibility to re-license the files above to Apache2 for\n> the TSS project?\n>\n> If not, is there any c library that provides support gitignore patterns?\n>\n> Thank you very much,\n> Bufolo\n> --\n> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line \"unsubscribe git\" in\n> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org\n> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html\n\n\n\n-- \nDuy\n"},{"id":"256563","messageId":"CAMDzUtz_BhW_tuQLy+AiNY7hz_HXCmHOtUNDgMBc=Taeon_Dwg@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CACsJy8Do77QSKSERPE26bKJ0gANB0XmPVBLwb1QKAW4qe0ouAQ@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Guilherme","fromEmail":"guibufolo@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-02-24T09:29:43Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T09:29:43Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"guibufolo@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"That discussion seems to have just died off.\n\nWhom should i write to about making the license change effective? You\n(Duy Nguyen) seemed to be fine with the license change. Can you, or\nanyone else, further guide me on the process on making sure i can use\nthe file(s) in TSS?\n\nThank you.\n\nOn Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote:\n> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n>> Hello,\n>>\n>> I have already posted this to the users mailing list but i guess it's\n>> more appropriate to have it here.\n>\n> Related thread about relicensing wildmatch.c for tss\n>\n> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/259764/focus=259798\n>\n>>\n>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------\n>> From: Guilherme \n>> Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM\n>> Subject: Copyright on wildmatch.c\n>> To: \"git-users@googlegroups.com\" \n>>\n>>\n>> Hello,\n>>\n>> I'm trying to implement support for gitignore files in\n>> the_silver_searcher (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher).\n>> It is a source code optimized version of grep. And it is way faster\n>> than ack.\n>>\n>> The problems at hand is that I'd like to use wildmatch.c and some\n>> dependencies (hex.c, some portions of compat-util.h) but it seems that\n>> git is GPL whereas tss is Apache2 licensed.\n>>\n>> Is there any possibility to re-license the files above to Apache2 for\n>> the TSS project?\n>>\n>> If not, is there any c library that provides support gitignore patterns?\n>>\n>> Thank you very much,\n>> Bufolo\n>> --\n>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line \"unsubscribe git\" in\n>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org\n>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html\n>\n>\n>\n> --\n> Duy\n"},{"id":"256565","messageId":"CACsJy8APLtweaf-q8+nCzJC-8J_vNZp-Y=AtNkX4NPuYr1jb=Q@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CAMDzUtz_BhW_tuQLy+AiNY7hz_HXCmHOtUNDgMBc=Taeon_Dwg@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Duy Nguyen","fromEmail":"pclouds@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-02-24T09:46:46Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T09:46:46Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pclouds@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/720?v=4"},"body":"On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n> That discussion seems to have just died off.\n>\n> Whom should i write to about making the license change effective? You\n> (Duy Nguyen) seemed to be fine with the license change. Can you, or\n> anyone else, further guide me on the process on making sure i can use\n> the file(s) in TSS?\n\nI'm not a lawyer, but I think after you double check\n\n - what Jonathan Neider wrote about GPLv3 and Apache2 is true\n - perhaps check with Anthony Ramine, who is the only person besides\nme that has made changes in wildmatch.c, in b79c0c3 (wildmatch:\nproperly fold case everywhere - 2013-05-30)\n\nthen wildmatch.c is good for reuse. You probably need to check with\nother people who made changes in hex.c and git-compat-util.h.\ngit-shortlog and git-blame could be used to get the email list of\nthese people. But maybe it's just easier to rewrite those, hex.c is\nnot big and I suspect you don't need much of git-compat-util.h.\n-- \nDuy\n"},{"id":"256568","messageId":"CAMDzUtxf0gF=JDgEk9EU3W2VWuP-Qy8-Kz-fTx_Y16UeFRGiYA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CACsJy8APLtweaf-q8+nCzJC-8J_vNZp-Y=AtNkX4NPuYr1jb=Q@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Guilherme","fromEmail":"guibufolo@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-02-24T12:17:26Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T12:17:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"guibufolo@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"I'm not sure on how i would rewrite hex.c it is just an array.\n\n>From git-compat-util.h i only needed a subset of the file (Lines 699\nto 785), as you assumed, but rewriting it also seems pointless as it\nis only a few defines and 4 very short functions.\n\nI have asked everybody who changed anything in those lines for their\napproval. I hope they all agree.\n\nOn Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote:\n> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n>> That discussion seems to have just died off.\n>>\n>> Whom should i write to about making the license change effective? You\n>> (Duy Nguyen) seemed to be fine with the license change. Can you, or\n>> anyone else, further guide me on the process on making sure i can use\n>> the file(s) in TSS?\n>\n> I'm not a lawyer, but I think after you double check\n>\n> - what Jonathan Neider wrote about GPLv3 and Apache2 is true\n> - perhaps check with Anthony Ramine, who is the only person besides\n> me that has made changes in wildmatch.c, in b79c0c3 (wildmatch:\n> properly fold case everywhere - 2013-05-30)\n>\n> then wildmatch.c is good for reuse. You probably need to check with\n> other people who made changes in hex.c and git-compat-util.h.\n> git-shortlog and git-blame could be used to get the email list of\n> these people. But maybe it's just easier to rewrite those, hex.c is\n> not big and I suspect you don't need much of git-compat-util.h.\n> --\n> Duy\n"},{"id":"256569","messageId":"CAMDzUtw8ySWwHvx4G+0R=L5JpxKqeFFNQ8Rb6bo5FRGwArzJcA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CAMDzUtxf0gF=JDgEk9EU3W2VWuP-Qy8-Kz-fTx_Y16UeFRGiYA@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Guilherme","fromEmail":"guibufolo@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-02-24T12:22:37Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T12:22:37Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"guibufolo@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\nI'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c\nwhich you have modified part of in the git project.\n\nI'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into\nthe_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR\nhttps://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614\n\nFor that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of\nctypes.c lines 8 to 31.\n\nUnfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses\nare incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the\ncode is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.\n\nYou can follow the discussion under\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264312\n\nThank you very much,\nBufolo\n"},{"id":"256572","messageId":"CAMDzUtzPxrtwdJN7cRmaMC_Sezmr9zSge=K_pc1OztEA8FVc=g@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CAMDzUtw8ySWwHvx4G+0R=L5JpxKqeFFNQ8Rb6bo5FRGwArzJcA@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Guilherme","fromEmail":"guibufolo@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-02-24T12:34:19Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T12:34:19Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"guibufolo@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"This is just an email to all the people i have written in private\nabout relicensing the files in need in TSS so they can reply to this\nemail and it be recorded in the mailing list.\n\nThe files are part of ctypes.c hex.c git-compat-util.h.\n\nOn Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n> Hello,\n>\n> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c\n> which you have modified part of in the git project.\n>\n> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into\n> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR\n> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614\n>\n> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of\n> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.\n>\n> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses\n> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the\n> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.\n>\n> You can follow the discussion under\n> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264312\n>\n> Thank you very much,\n> Bufolo\n"},{"id":"256574","messageId":"CAMDzUtyWF6oRV7-h45P8x=tWOK2kwdg2ELhR+ugjZLWTbF_feQ@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CAMDzUtzPxrtwdJN7cRmaMC_Sezmr9zSge=K_pc1OztEA8FVc=g@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Guilherme","fromEmail":"guibufolo@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-02-24T12:54:43Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T12:54:43Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"guibufolo@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"This is CC to Anthony Ramine.\n\nOn Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n> This is just an email to all the people i have written in private\n> about relicensing the files in need in TSS so they can reply to this\n> email and it be recorded in the mailing list.\n>\n> The files are part of ctypes.c hex.c git-compat-util.h.\n>\n> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n>> Hello,\n>>\n>> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c\n>> which you have modified part of in the git project.\n>>\n>> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into\n>> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR\n>> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614\n>>\n>> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of\n>> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.\n>>\n>> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses\n>> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the\n>> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.\n>>\n>> You can follow the discussion under\n>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264312\n>>\n>> Thank you very much,\n>> Bufolo\n"},{"id":"256575","messageId":"1E0E3F90-07A7-4CDE-AA13-66448DC0404B@gmail.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CAMDzUtyWF6oRV7-h45P8x=tWOK2kwdg2ELhR+ugjZLWTbF_feQ@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Anthony Ramine","fromEmail":"n.oxyde@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-02-24T13:35:00Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T13:35:00Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"n.oxyde@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/123095?v=4"},"body":"I agree to relicense my contributions on wildmatch.c under the Apache license.\n\nLe 24 févr. 2015 à 13:54, Guilherme a écrit :\n\n> This is CC to Anthony Ramine.\n> \n> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n>> This is just an email to all the people i have written in private\n>> about relicensing the files in need in TSS so they can reply to this\n>> email and it be recorded in the mailing list.\n>> \n>> The files are part of ctypes.c hex.c git-compat-util.h.\n>> \n>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n>>> Hello,\n>>> \n>>> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c\n>>> which you have modified part of in the git project.\n>>> \n>>> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into\n>>> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR\n>>> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614\n>>> \n>>> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of\n>>> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.\n>>> \n>>> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses\n>>> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the\n>>> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.\n>>> \n>>> You can follow the discussion under\n>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264312\n>>> \n>>> Thank you very much,\n>>> Bufolo\n"},{"id":"256580","messageId":"54EC9FAB.9090506@web.de","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CAMDzUtzPxrtwdJN7cRmaMC_Sezmr9zSge=K_pc1OztEA8FVc=g@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"René Scharfe","fromEmail":"l.s.r@web.de","sentAt":"2015-02-24T15:58:35Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T15:58:35Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"l.s.r@web.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/26122331?v=4"},"body":"Am 24.02.2015 um 13:34 schrieb Guilherme:\n> This is just an email to all the people i have written in private\n> about relicensing the files in need in TSS so they can reply to this\n> email and it be recorded in the mailing list.\n>\n> The files are part of ctypes.c hex.c git-compat-util.h.\n>\n> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n>> Hello,\n>>\n>> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c\n>> which you have modified part of in the git project.\n>>\n>> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into\n>> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR\n>> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614\n>>\n>> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of\n>> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.\n>>\n>> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses\n>> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the\n>> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.\n\nThat's fine with me.\n\nRené\n"},{"id":"256585","messageId":"xmqqzj83qgo4.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CAMDzUtxf0gF=JDgEk9EU3W2VWuP-Qy8-Kz-fTx_Y16UeFRGiYA@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2015-02-24T18:59:39Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T18:59:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Guilherme writes:\n\n> I'm not sure on how i would rewrite hex.c it is just an array.\n>\n> From git-compat-util.h i only needed a subset of the file (Lines 699\n> to 785), as you assumed, but rewriting it also seems pointless as it\n> is only a few defines and 4 very short functions.\n\nI do not think I have any contributions of significance under\ncopyright protection in the parts of that file. The ctype-related\nlines in git-compat-util.h attribute to me primarily because they\nwere moved by 4050c0df (Clean up compatibility definitions,\n2005-12-05) from what Linus wrote in another file to the present\nlocation.\n"},{"id":"256601","messageId":"CA+8g5KGAEVFXWSNjH8sPKNHvb3vwMn9NXTa+o04VsruyswB+FA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"38639","inReplyTo":"CAMDzUtzPxrtwdJN7cRmaMC_Sezmr9zSge=K_pc1OztEA8FVc=g@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c","fromName":"Jim Meyering","fromEmail":"jim@meyering.net","sentAt":"2015-02-24T22:16:23Z","receivedAt":"2015-02-24T22:16:23Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jim@meyering.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/710630?v=4"},"body":"On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Guilherme wrote:\n> This is just an email to all the people i have written in private\n> about relicensing the files in need in TSS so they can reply to this\n> email and it be recorded in the mailing list.\n>\n> The files are part of ctypes.c hex.c git-compat-util.h.\n>\n> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Guilherme wrote:\n>> Hello,\n>>\n>> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c\n>> which you have modified part of in the git project.\n>>\n>> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into\n>> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR\n>> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614\n>>\n>> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of\n>> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.\n>>\n>> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses\n>> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the\n>> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.\n\nFine by me.\n"}]}