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Re: Copyright on wildmatch.c

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GGuilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com>
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Feb 24, 2015, 09:29 UTC
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That discussion seems to have just died off.

Whom should i write to about making the license change effective? You (Duy Nguyen) seemed to be fine with the license change. Can you, or anyone else, further guide me on the process on making sure i can use the file(s) in TSS?

Thank you.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have already posted this to the users mailing list but i guess it's
>> more appropriate to have it here.
>
> Related thread about relicensing wildmatch.c for tss
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/259764/focus=259798
>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM
>> Subject: Copyright on wildmatch.c
>> To: "git-users@googlegroups.com" <git-users@googlegroups.com>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to implement support for gitignore files in
>> the_silver_searcher (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher).
>> It is a source code optimized version of grep. And it is way faster
>> than ack.
>>
>> The problems at hand is that I'd like to use wildmatch.c and some
>> dependencies (hex.c, some portions of compat-util.h) but it seems that
>> git is GPL whereas tss is Apache2 licensed.
>>
>> Is there any possibility to re-license the files above to Apache2 for
>> the TSS project?
>>
>> If not, is there any c library that provides support gitignore patterns?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Bufolo
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> Duy
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Message 3 of 12 in “Fwd: Copyright on wildmatch.c”
  1. GuilhermeFeb 24, 2015
  2. Duy NguyenFeb 24, 2015
  3. GuilhermeFeb 24, 2015
  4. Duy NguyenFeb 24, 2015
  5. GuilhermeFeb 24, 2015
  6. GuilhermeFeb 24, 2015
  7. GuilhermeFeb 24, 2015
  8. GuilhermeFeb 24, 2015
  9. Anthony RamineFeb 24, 2015
  10. René ScharfeFeb 24, 2015
  11. Jim MeyeringFeb 24, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2015

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