Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 15, 2008, 05:00 UTC
Message-ID: <20081115050039.GC2932@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081115043051.GA21608@linode.davidb.org>

David Brown <git@davidb.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:46:58PM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> 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.

I don't know. When I read it myself I assumed dynamic linking would also be OK. This is why I prefer programs; I don't read legalese so I can't quite figure out what the statement means. At least with C its a little less vague. ;-)

-- 
Shawn.