Re: ag, **, and the GPL

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2014, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20141118190918.GH6527@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACr0F2iGY_vxWzsNaPQNJ2cLUDRZPS70i79EhyA9OkA7qLaUQQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Matthew Kaniaris wrote:

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>                                                                   Ag
> is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 which to the best of
> my understanding is incompatible with the GPLv2.  Would you grant me
> permission to reuse wildmatch.c (and necessary includes) for use in
> Ag?

wildmatch.c comes from rsync.

Conveniently, newer versions of rsync are under the GPLv3, which according to [1] is compatible with the Apache license. The code is at lib/wildmatch.c from git://git.samba.org/rsync.git. It hasn't changed since the rsync license change.

Duy, what would you think of making git's wildmatch.c "GPL v2 or v3, at your option"?

Thanks, Jonathan

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html