From: Pierre Habouzit Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:51:55 GMT Subject: Re: libgit2 - a true git library Message-ID: <20081031215155.GC21799@artemis.corp> In-Reply-To: <20081031214356.GX14786@spearce.org> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:43:56PM +0000, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, david@lang.hm wrote: > > > at the very least you should go from GPLv2 to LGPLv2 for the library. > > > > Sure. > > Well, we cannot do a GPL->LGPL switch on code without author > permission for that sort of re-licensing. > > That said, I think many authors of git.git code would be more > comfortable with a GPL->LGPL change, where they wouldn't be OK with > a GPL->BSD/MIT change. There may be some folks though who still > wouldn't accept a GPL->LGPL move. FWIW, I dislike the LGPL for many reasons, and I prefer 100x times a GPL with GCC kind of exceptions. But if other people hate it, I wont be be a problem and refuse it. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org