Re: Licensing and the library version of git

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 28, 2006, 00:43 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910607271743o3b7a27d5v55a216745937c74e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <eablgn$c6a$1@sea.gmane.org>

On 7/27/06, Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:11:00 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > On 7/27/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> >> > You may like trying to force GPL onto the app but many apps are
> >> > stuck with the license they have and can't be changed since there is
> >> > no way to contact the original developers.
> >>
> >> At this point, git-shortlog lists exactly 200 people (at least entries
> >> like Unknown or No name are all linux@horizon.com ;-).
> >
> > Inability to integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio is going to have a
> > lot of impact on the cross platform use of git.
>
> Could you stop with the histrionics please?

It is usually wise not to make comments like this, they don't help in building the community.

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> > Is a conscious
> > decision being made to stop this integration or is this just unplanned
> > side effect of the original license? If this is an unplanned side
> > effect, the quicker we move, the easier it is to fix.
>
> So, using CVSNT (a GPL'd SCCI provider) and git-cvsserver would be a way
> to continue.  I'm assuming that the primary functionality they want via
> their IDE is checkout/diff/commit/log.

Now, that's a great strategy. Tell the large project you are interested in switching off from CVS to git that they need to run a CVS emulation gateway forever. I don't think a switch has much of a chance of happening.

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> Quite a lot of Windows developers have no problems using multiple tools
> for things, I'd assume they would also be able to use any existent port
> of git (to Windows) to do the esoteric things like branching/bisect/etc.
>
> Anand
>
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Jon Smirl
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