Re: Fwd: permission to re-license strbuf subsystem as LGPL

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 23, 2011, 17:12 UTC
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Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> writes:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:21 PM
> Subject: permission to re-license strbuf subsystem as LGPL
> 
> To those who have contributed to git's strbuf subsystem,
> 
> I'd like to turn git's strbufs into a library.  So with your consent
> I'd like to re-license the code in strbuf.c and strbuf.h, and any
> compat/ dependencies as LGPL so that I can create a strbuf library.

That's a laudable goal. Do you plan on librarizing other universal mini-libraries, like parseopt or test-lib?

I wonder if for example "perf" tool in Linux kernel sources (userspace companion to perf events subsystem) will move to using it; currently it reuses some of internal git minilibraries, IIRC strbuf and parseopt included.

By the way, how the 'strbuf' from git (which I think was created among others to avoid additional external dependencies) differs from existing C (not C++) string libraries, like 'bstring'[1], The Better String Library, or the C libraries in http://bstring.sourceforge.net/features.html?

[1]: http://bstring.sourceforge.net

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Jakub Narębski