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Re: Reftable format implementation in C and Go

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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Date
Nov 20, 2019, 14:22 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 6:19 AM Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> wrote:
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>> Would you mind, however, to relicense the code under a license compatible
>> with GPLv2? Currently your code is under the Apache License (which I heard
>> somewhere is probably incompatible with the GPLv2 used by the Git
>> project):
>> https://github.com/google/reftable/blob/6cd8dbb4106d18627f442d3148de71d7db43d4b6/c/api.h#L1-L13
>>

according to our open source lawyers, Apache is actually compatible with GPLv2, but I think we could dual-license the code.

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