From: Jakub Narebski Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:12:34 GMT Subject: Re: Fwd: permission to re-license strbuf subsystem as LGPL Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Brandon Casey writes: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Brandon Casey > 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 -- Jakub Narębski