Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing

From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Nov 15, 2008, 12:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20081115123916.GN24201@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081114234658.GA2932@spearce.org>

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

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>  Note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as this project
>  is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
>  v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
> 
>  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.)

IANAL - what is the difference between this and the LGPL?

Thanks.