From: Jon Smirl Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:43:58 GMT Subject: Re: Licensing and the library version of git Message-ID: <9e4733910607271743o3b7a27d5v55a216745937c74e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 7/27/06, Anand Kumria wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:11:00 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > On 7/27/06, Petr Baudis 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. > > 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. > 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com