From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:45:09 GMT
Subject: Re: git log filtering
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702090144310.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070209002344.GF1556@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > We included libxdiff _exactly_ to ensure consistency between different 
> > git installations (remember, diff behaves quite differently on 
> > different platforms, and even GNU diff behaves differently depending 
> > on which version you use).
> 
> pcre is covered by the BSD license.  Can we ship it with git, like we 
> ship libxdiff?  I want to say Apache ships with pcre, but they use the 
> Apache License so it might be easier for them to do so.

If we bundle it like we do with libxdiff, I do not have any objections. It 
would also help MinGW.

Ciao,
Dscho