Re: Licensing and the library version of git

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> > > 
> > > I think that part of the anwser for question "Why do people use GIT?" is that
> > > they trust you and other maintainers that you do a good and stable job. Won't
> > > creating several ports/forks/whatever destroy at least part of this?
> > 
> > Sure. But the point is, the GPLv2 isn't exactly up for discussion. People 
> > can complain all they want, but if they want to trust me, they'll take the 
> > GPLv2. It's that easy.
> 
> I think there'd be a justification for licensing part of git like sparse 
> is licensed, for the same reasons. It wouldn't include any of the 
> interesting operations, probably, but it would be worth having a canonical 
> implementation of reading and writing the data structures, so other 
> implementations don't screw that up.