From: Matthew Kaniaris <mkaniaris@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 04:50:03 GMT
Subject: ag, **, and the GPL
Message-ID: <CACr0F2iGY_vxWzsNaPQNJ2cLUDRZPS70i79EhyA9OkA7qLaUQQ@mail.gmail.com>

The Silver Search (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher), is
a small, open source, cross platform searching utility written as a
replacement for ack.  One of the major benefits of Ag (and a source
for much of its speed) is that it obeys .gitignore.  However, Ag
currently treats gitignores as regexs which produces incorrect results
for e.g. **.  I'd like to add support to ag to obey the .gitignore
spec but I'm not keen on implementing yet another fnmatch clone.  Ag
is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 which to the best of
my understanding is incompatible with the GPLv2.  Would you grant me
permission to reuse wildmatch.c (and necessary includes) for use in
Ag?

-Matt Kaniaris