From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:28:51 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2010, #06; Tue, 23)
Message-ID: <20100224062850.GA12796@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v635nsa37.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 05:20:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * cw/test-lib-relicense (2010-02-22) 1 commit
>  . test-lib.sh: Add explicit license detail, with change from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.
> 
> I think a reasonable way forward would be to collect Acks from
> everybody who appears on "git blame" or "git shortlog" output.

Somehow I am number 4 on "git shortlog -ns" for test-lib.sh, despite
having contributed only a tiny number of lines. :)  But certainly I am
fine with re-licensing it.

> How do people feel about relicensing the whole (except for the
> obviously borrowed bits, such as xdiff/) under GPLv2 _or later_?  I am
> not a big fan of GPLv3 and do not see a compelling reason to switch to
> v3 for the sake of v3 license per-se, but helping others that want to
> use our code might tip the balance.

I have no problem with re-licensing my contributions.

-Peff