re-licensing pkt-line.c code

Hey all,

I am writing a partial implementation of git in Objective-C so I can get a git server running on an iphone, and hopefully it could eventually be used in a mac desktop app that could be distributed without the git binary. If anyone is interested in the project, you can get it here:

http://github.com/schacon/objective-git

There are about 20-25 lines of code from pkt-line.c that I think were originally written back in 2005 that I would like to use so I don't have to re-implement them. It is pretty generic - it is just the code that converts an int into a 4 char hex and back that is placed at the beginning of several of the network protocol lines.

http://github.com/schacon/objective-git/tree/master/ObjGitServerHandler.m#L554

I have to relicense this, since I can't legally distribute my source
code for the iphone app due to Apples f**king NDA.  I would like to
release my ObjectiveGit project under the MIT (or, alternately, LGPL).
 Is Linus the right person to ask for this permission?  What is the
best way to do so?  I could come up with an alternate way to
accomplish the same thing, but it seems like a waste of time to do so,
and helpful to nobody.

Thanks, Scott