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Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing

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SRSverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2008, 21:09 UTC
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 22:00, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> I doubt it.  Most of that code was written with the execute-once
> mentality.  And with the we-have-posix mentality.
>
> Two things we do not _want_ in libgit2.

But at least with permission from the authors we're allowed to look at the original code without preventing us from licensing the new code as GPL+exception ;).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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