Re: git integration with monodevelop

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 14, 2008, 14:55 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811141553020.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <491D82F3.2090807@op5.se>

Hi,

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > 
> > > Evgeniy Ivanov wrote:
> > >
> > > > But this is the same things Shawn has suggested to my mentor and 
> > > > me at the beginning of SoC...
> > > Oh? I didn't know libgit2 started as a SoC project.
> > 
> > It did not.  It started as a request from GitHub, and following 
> > discussion, at the GitTogether '08.
> > 
> > There _was_ a SoC project last year, libgit-thin, but the problem as 
> > far as GitHub is concerned was that it was a tear-down approach: it 
> > took git.git and tried to make a small library of it, and by this 
> > approach was bound to the GPL.
> > 
> 
> Oh. I was under the impression that libgit2 would also be able to reuse 
> code from git.git, since there was that huge license thread a couple of 
> months ago. Did I misinterpret that thread, and everything in libgit2 
> has to be implemented from scratch?

You misinterpreted.

A lot can be reused, because the original authors agree to let the code be relicensed (including Shawn and me, for example). But a few others have raised concerns with everything non-GPL (and that includes GPL+gcc exception), and even stated explicitely that they are not okay with their code being reused (or adapted) to something as permissive as BSD, for example.

However, let's not revive the license wars.  The topic is kinda boring.

Ciao, Dscho