From: Cedric Vivier <cedricv@neonux.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:54:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use natural ordering to display list of branches.
Message-ID: <d45085aa0806060154p58e7e87dk636d519cbdcf2dc7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460806060142y7edc92e4y7cbad6b3cfad1eac@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/6/5 Cedric Vivier <cedricv@neonux.com>:
>> +  strnatcmp.c -- Perform 'natural order' comparisons of strings in C.
>> +  Copyright (C) 2000, 2004 by Martin Pool <mbp sourcefrog net>
>
> IANAL, but I'm not 100% sure clauses 2a or 3 are strictly GPL
> compatible (especially as "altered from" is unlikely to be interpreted
> in only one way).
>
> Perhaps we can ask the original author (cc'd) if he is prepared to
> license it under GPL2?
>

I've found a discussion on the Apache mailing-list where the author,
Martin Pool seems to ack that this is ok to include his code in GPL'ed
code or even to relicense it :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/10/msg00016.html

Also maybe we could use glibc's strverscmp instead, but am not sure of
its portability ?