Re: Ship our own copy of subprocess.py

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 20, 2005, 14:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509200753570.2553@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050920053024.GA12979@c165.ib.student.liu.se>

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:39:48PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> > 
> > >  - merge-recursive not requiring 2.4 but checking the result
> > >    from 'import subprocess', and optionally install its own
> > >    subprocess.py (I could do this myself but Fredrik could help
> > >    me);
> > 
> > I'll be cutting 0.99.7a with this, to help RHEL instalation.
> > Proofreading appreciated.
> > 
> 
> The patch looks good. I am obviously too slow for this kind of thing :)

Quick issue: the subprocess.py thing seems to be the old-style BSD license with the anti-advertizing clause. It's not compatible with the GPL.

Now, it's arguable that this is "mere aggregation" (git is bulding a mini-distribution), but still..

		Linus