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Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing

From
David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date
Nov 15, 2008, 04:30 UTC
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<20081115043051.GA21608@linode.davidb.org>
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<20081114234658.GA2932@spearce.org>
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:46:58PM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License,
> the authors give you unlimited permission to link the compiled
> version of this file into combinations with other programs,
> and to distribute those combinations without any restriction
> coming from the use of this file.  (The General Public License
> restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they cover
> modification of the file, and distribution when not linked into
> a combined executable.)

Is this license intended to allow static linking but forbid dynamic linking into a non-GPL program? It depends on how you interpret "linked into a combined executable", but that sounds like it intentionally excludes the dynamic case.

David
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Message 9 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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