Re: GSoC 2010

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 12, 2010, 09:35 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1002121034320.20986@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100212091635.GA22942@glandium.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Mike Hommey wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:03:43AM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:02, Johannes Schindelin
> > <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > Would it not make sense to implement git-remote-svn as a C program? 
> > > That should help matters especially on Windows, where git-svn is 
> > > very slow due to its using MSys (which is a stripped-down Cygwin, as 
> > > you know, jumping through hoops to bring some POSIX-iness to 
> > > Windows).
> > 
> > It would very much be sense to do so, perhaps we should update the 
> > wiki to say that implementing it in C is strongly preferred?
> 
> It is already mentioned on the wiki that this would probably be a 
> problem, license-wise. (the svn library is Apache license, which is 
> incompatible with GPLv2)

So git-remote-svn would have to be under an Apache-compatible license, so what? It is not as if git-remote-svn was a derivative work of Git, just because it abides by a very simple command-line interface that happens to be defined in Git, but would work anywhere else, too.

Ciao, Dscho