Re: Contribution licensing question(s)

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2017, 18:59 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPp-BFT+_WXyYFN1t18TLaLzZfJYtGAS3SqK3TxPT6toH-obw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171101183829.mwoi7urka3hze3pm@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff,

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> This was mostly done for the libgit2 project, which uses GPL with a
> linking exception:
>
>   https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/master/COPYING
>
> When that project started, they asked for dual-license permission from
> various git.git contributors, which is documented in that repo:
>
>   https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/master/git.git-authors

Ah, thanks, not sure why I had mis-remembered that as being a jgit thing. Thanks for jogging my memory. I think that (and your comment to just grant other projects a different license) answers the main question; I'll take it back and see what they say.

Thanks, Elijah