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Relicensing test_set_editor

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 26, 2010, 05:08 UTC
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<20100426050820.GA30942@progeny.tock>
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<87vdbi37yp.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz>
Hi Bryan,

I was wondering: would you be okay with relicensing your test_set_editor() function from git’s test harness as GPL-2+?

The functionality is useful, so if that is not okay, I guess someone who hasn’t read the code would have to reimplement it[1]. I thought I should ask because clearly you have not disappeared from the face of the planet. :)

Thanks for your work, and sorry for the bother, Jonathan

[1] Context: the Notmuch mail project would like to use git’s test harness. The ack-collection for a patch to change the license to help with uses like this is being tracked here:

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Test-lib_reclicensing
Previous: Michal SojkaNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 2 of 3 in “test-lib.sh: Add explicit license detail, with change from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.”
  1. test-lib.sh: Add explicit license detail, with change from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.Michal Sojka, Apr 16, 2010
  2. Relicensing test_set_editorJonathan Nieder, Apr 26, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2010

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