From: Patrick Steinhardt Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:11:46 GMT Subject: Re: gitoxide-compatible licensing of Git's Rust code, was Re: [PATCH 6/7] xdiff: conditionally use Rust's implementation of xxhash Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 10:51:47AM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote: > On 03/10/2025 04:18, Jeff King wrote: > > That probably needs to be explicitly granted > > permission to relicense, whether to a specific project or not, and it is > > hard to pinpoint a definitive author for a lot of it (even if many > > authors have agreed to relicensing) because it has been touched by so > > many people over the years. > > > > So there are probably two separate legal issues to consider: > > > > - how the explicit re-licensing grant is worded > > > > - what problems may came up with porting existing code that has been > > touched by many people > > If we want to seriously consider this we should probably reach out to > Conservancy for some advice. Did this end up being discussed at the > Contributor's Summit? Not really, no, as we didn't have enough time anymore towards the end. But I agree, seeking advice from the SFC might be helpful in this context. At least until now I haven't heard from anybody who would be against the idea itself, excluding the potential re-licensing woes. Would this be something that the PLC can do? I don't think it makes sense for random Git folks from the mailing list to approach them. Cc'ing the PLC. Patrick