Re: git fast-import/fast-export

> As you can read on the wiki [0] I am hoping to mentor a GSoC student 
> this year to work on git-remote-svn, a remote-helper for svn implemented 
> in C. If successful git will be able to work natively with svn 
> repositories, no offense to Eric, but git-svn is a tad sub-optimal ;). 
> To do this I think the best way to go forward is to implement the helper 
> by hooking up a fast-import/fast-export frontend to libsvn. Since it 
> will be implemented in C (partially for speed, but also so that it will 
> be usable on Windows as well), the current fast-import.c and 
> builtin-fast-export.c could be of great use. Neither files have an 
> explicit license, (although builtin-fast-import.c says copyright by 
> Dscho) which puts them under the GPLv2. The libsvn bindings are apache 
> licensed, so we need something licensed either under the apache license, 
> or something compatible with that.
> 
> So my question, would it be possible to relicense fast-import.c and 
> builtin-fast-export.c under "GPLv2 or later" instead of the current 
> "GPLv2"? That way we can use (parts of) the code in the svn helper, 
> which will (probably) be licensed as "GPLv2 or later" as well.