Re: gitoxide-compatible licensing of Git's Rust code, was Re: [PATCH 6/7] xdiff: conditionally use Rust's implementation of xxhash

> On 03/10/2025 04:18, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 11:06:38AM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
> > 
> > > > If I understand the suggestion correctly, it's not to license it
> > > > specifically to GitOxide. It's to use a permissive license (like GPL
> > > > with linking exception) that would make it compatible with other
> > > > projects with similar licenses (like GitOxide).
> > >
> > > I was responding to this paragraph in Johannes' message
> > >
> > >      Note the exception? For new Rust code (and of course excluding code
> > >      that has been ported verbatim from GPLv2-licensed code), GPL v2
> > >      could be used with an exception along these lines: This file is
> > >      licensed under the GPL v2, with the exception that it can be freely
> > >      used in the Gitoxide project.
> > >
> > > That suggestion is pretty close to what libgit2 has in its git.git-authors
> > > file[1]. I'm not sure how practical it is to special case just one project
> > > though.
> > 
> > Ah, yeah, I may have misunderstood the proposal then.
> > 
> > I don't think that really changes much with respect to my concern, which
> > is for existing code.
> 
> I agree it doesn't change anything with regard to that, I think it just adds
> more potential problems.