Re: Some git performance measurements..

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Dec 7, 2007, 16:07 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712070800370.7274@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712071348100.27959@racer.site>

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> 
> How is "You may use it in anything you like;" funky licensing?  It is 
> effectively public domain.

No, it has a long list of requirements that my not be onerous, but they aren't compatible with GPL (ie they require that you make changes in certain ways).

That said, if somebody wants to use that qsort, the thing to do is to ask Gareth for permission, maybe he just says "sure". For example, for git, you might as well remove the whole unaligned case, and quite frankly, that #ifdef DEBUG_QSORT is some of the ugliest I've ever seen and should be cleaned up (why didn't he just use a "dbg_printf()" macro like everybody else? Even if it requires double parenthesis for ols-style C portability, it's cleaner than what is there now).

			Linus