Re: GSoC 2010

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2010, 09:32 UTC
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1002120132q157d2d4dqd7c81d766bd933f6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1002121034320.20986@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Heya,

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:35, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Mike Hommey wrote:
>> It is already mentioned on the wiki that this would probably be a
>> problem, license-wise. (the svn library is Apache license, which is
>> incompatible with GPLv2)

Yeah, guess who put that there ;).

> So git-remote-svn would have to be under an Apache-compatible license, so
> what? It is not as if git-remote-svn was a derivative work of Git, just
> because it abides by a very simple command-line interface that happens to
> be defined in Git, but would work anywhere else, too.

Excellent point, I think we could safely argue that if we only expose 'import' and 'export' (so adhere to the fast-import/fast-export format that is already widely used), that it is indeed not a derative work. Also, becaus of how we set up the remote helpers (as drop in binaries), we shouldn't have to worry too much about distributing?

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier