Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary (long)

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2007, 14:59 UTC
Message-ID: <8fe92b430710040759r5777264aj5ecb09e0252fef9a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CDD8E66B-44E0-4258-A3CC-4E48BC58FD2F@lrde.epita.fr>

On 10/4/07, Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:

> Hi Jakub,
> nice work you've done there.  Well done!

Half done. But thanks.

By the way, I'd put final data from the survey as an attachement at
   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007
Currently there is data I used to generate this summary, in CSV format.
I have used horrible Perl script to tabularize free-form questions, removing
comments etc., and to generate tables in this summary.

> On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>

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> > Note that Git is GPLv2, and it will probably stay that forever, so you
> > are _free_ to start a commercial support scheme for Git, but others
> > are free not to choose it. This question is to get to know if there is
> > sufficient demand for commercial Git support for it to be viable.
>
> Once again (AFAIR this was already raised during one of the previous
> summary) what's the link between GPLv2 and commercial support?  You
> seem to imply that because Git won't move to GPLv3, it's a good thing
> for potential paid support, or something.  I don't quite see how
> GPLvX comes into play with commercial support.  I'm not a license
> expert though.

The only link between GPL and commercial support is that GPL does not prohibit commercial support (like noncommercial-free licenses for example), and that having commercial support doesn't mean that license would change to proprietary (it cannot).

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Jakub Narebski