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Re: [PATCH] Deltification library work by Nicolas Pitre.

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 19, 2005, 15:36 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505190833380.2322@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To
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[ This goes to the list because Davide can apparently receive the list 
   emails, but for some reason apparently doesn't like my osdl.org 
   address ]
Davide,
would you mind signing off on me adding the lines
  *  This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  *  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  *  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  *  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *  Use of this within git automatically means that the LGPL
+ *  licensing gets turned into GPLv2 within this project. 
  */

(If you just send me an ack and your "signed-off-by" line, I'll edit Nico's patch appropriately, and check it in with all of our sign-offs).

That way there's no question about the dual-licensing.
		Linus
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Message 7 of 8 in “Deltification library work by Nicolas Pitre.”
  1. Deltification library work by Nicolas Pitre.Junio C Hamano, May 19, 2005
  2. Nicolas PitreMay 19, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsMay 19, 2005
  4. Nicolas PitreMay 19, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2005
  6. Nicolas PitreMay 19, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsMay 19, 2005
  8. Davide LibenziMay 19, 2005

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