From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:31:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 09/12] Add reftable library
Message-ID: <xmqqwo5z4ofz.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1ro7633k.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> +BSD License
>>> +
>>> +Copyright (c) 2020, Google LLC
>>> +All rights reserved.
>>
>> Linking against GPLv2 code will make this code GPLv2, right?
>
> Wrong.  A program (e.g. "git") can have various parts, some of which
> is licensed under GPL, some other parts under BSD, yet some other
> parts under LGPL.  Read the second paragraph of README we ship
> without source.

without --> with our

;-)

>
> I think you are thinking about the obligation a distributor of the
> linked binary compiled from such source has, which is that they need
> to make available not just the GPL part but the rest of the program
> used to compile the whole, including parts licensed under BSD and
> other licenses.