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Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing

From
Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Date
Nov 25, 2008, 15:19 UTC
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On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 21:59 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> I've been working quite a lot on git -> libgit2 code moving,
> but the licensing stuff is a bit depressing, as I can't know
> if the work I'm doing is for nothing or not.
> 
> The license decided for libgit2 is "GPL with gcc exception".
> Those who are OK with relicensing their contributions under
> that license for the purpose of libgit2, can you please say
> so?
> 
> I'm planning on writing a tool for this that will have "ok",
> "not ok" and "ask-each-patch" as options.
> 
> The list of people whose position I know is rather short.
> Please correct me if you're on it and would like not to be.
> Junio C. Hamano		ask
> Johannes Schindelin	ok
> Shawn O. Pearce		ok
> Andreas Ericsson	ok
> Pierre Habouzit		ok
> Brian Gernhardt		ok
> 
> 
> I've put everyone who "owns" more than 500 lines of code
> on the bcc list, figuring your permission is important
> but that you don't want the hundreds (well, one can hope)
> of emails from people saying "ok". The list of major owners
> was generated with "git showners *.c" in a worktree from
> the next branch of git.git.

You're welcome to use any of the code I've written under the GPL + exception license, though most of it is probably not that useful, as it's mostly porting shell commands to builtins. I'm very happy to see this effort start up, as I've been tempted to do something similar myself :)

cheers, Kristian

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Message 27 of 33 in “git to libgit2 code relicensing”
  1. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2008
  2. Martin KoeglerNov 14, 2008
  3. Sverre RabbelierNov 14, 2008
  4. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2008
  5. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2008
  6. Martin KoeglerNov 15, 2008
  7. Linus TorvaldsNov 14, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceNov 14, 2008
  9. David BrownNov 15, 2008
  10. Shawn O. PearceNov 15, 2008
  11. Nicolas PitreNov 15, 2008
  12. David BrownNov 15, 2008
  13. Miklos VajnaNov 15, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2008
  15. Miklos VajnaNov 15, 2008
  16. Pierre HabouzitNov 15, 2008
  17. David BrownNov 15, 2008
  18. Linus TorvaldsNov 15, 2008
  19. Andreas EricssonNov 15, 2008
  20. Pau Garcia i QuilesNov 15, 2008
  21. Andreas EricssonNov 15, 2008
  22. Pau Garcia i QuilesNov 15, 2008
  23. Andreas EricssonNov 15, 2008
  24. David BrownNov 15, 2008
  25. Daniel BarkalowNov 16, 2008
  26. René ScharfeNov 20, 2008
  27. Kristian HøgsbergNov 25, 2008
  28. Andreas EricssonNov 16, 2008
  29. Johannes SchindelinNov 16, 2008
  30. Sverre RabbelierNov 16, 2008
  31. Andreas EricssonNov 17, 2008
  32. Shawn O. PearceNov 17, 2008
  33. Andreas EricssonNov 17, 2008

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