Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c

From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Feb 24, 2015, 22:16 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+8g5KGAEVFXWSNjH8sPKNHvb3vwMn9NXTa+o04VsruyswB+FA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMDzUtzPxrtwdJN7cRmaMC_Sezmr9zSge=K_pc1OztEA8FVc=g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> wrote:

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> This is just an email to all the people i have written in private
> about relicensing the files in need in TSS so they can reply to this
> email and it be recorded in the mailing list.
>
> The files are part of ctypes.c hex.c git-compat-util.h.
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c
>> which you have modified part of in the git project.
>>
>> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into
>> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR
>> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614
>>
>> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of
>> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.
>>
>> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses
>> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the
>> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.

Fine by me.