Re: libgit2 - a true git library

From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Nov 2, 2008, 05:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20081102050917.GA26634@linode.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <d411cc4a0811011807g229f8becs9f411d6e19fb6c12@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:07:04PM -0700, Scott Chacon wrote:

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>Think about trying to incorporate this into something proprietary,
>Shawn - how much of a pain is it going to be to get that license
>reviewed in Google?  However, LGPL I'm sure there is already a
>reviewed policy.  Now, since that may be a pain, time that Shawn could
>have been spending being paid to work on the library is lost because
>they can't use it, or it takes weeks/months to review it.  That's my
>concern.

The gcc exception license should have been reviewed by anyone who has ever build anything proprietary out of gcc.

GPL+link exception is a very common license. It's most common use is for runtime libraries for various programming languages.

Lawyers I know are significantly less fearful of the GPL+exception than the LGPL. The exception basically says that if you use it in a certain way, then none of the GPL applies.

David