Fwd: Copyright on wildmatch.c

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM
> Subject: Copyright on wildmatch.c
> To: "git-users@googlegroups.com" <git-users@googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to implement support for gitignore files in
> the_silver_searcher (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher).
> It is a source code optimized version of grep. And it is way faster
> than ack.
>
> The problems at hand is that I'd like to use wildmatch.c and some
> dependencies (hex.c, some portions of compat-util.h) but it seems that
> git is GPL whereas tss is Apache2 licensed.
>
> Is there any possibility to re-license the files above to Apache2 for
> the TSS project?
>
> If not, is there any c library that provides support gitignore patterns?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Bufolo
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> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have already posted this to the users mailing list but i guess it's
>> more appropriate to have it here.
>
> Related thread about relicensing wildmatch.c for tss
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/259764/focus=259798
>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM
>> Subject: Copyright on wildmatch.c
>> To: "git-users@googlegroups.com" <git-users@googlegroups.com>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to implement support for gitignore files in
>> the_silver_searcher (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher).
>> It is a source code optimized version of grep. And it is way faster
>> than ack.
>>
>> The problems at hand is that I'd like to use wildmatch.c and some
>> dependencies (hex.c, some portions of compat-util.h) but it seems that
>> git is GPL whereas tss is Apache2 licensed.
>>
>> Is there any possibility to re-license the files above to Apache2 for
>> the TSS project?
>>
>> If not, is there any c library that provides support gitignore patterns?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Bufolo
>> --
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>
>
>
> --
> Duy

> That discussion seems to have just died off.
>
> Whom should i write to about making the license change effective? You
> (Duy Nguyen) seemed to be fine with the license change. Can you, or
> anyone else, further guide me on the process on making sure i can use
> the file(s) in TSS?

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That discussion seems to have just died off.
>>
>> Whom should i write to about making the license change effective? You
>> (Duy Nguyen) seemed to be fine with the license change. Can you, or
>> anyone else, further guide me on the process on making sure i can use
>> the file(s) in TSS?
>
> I'm not a lawyer, but I think after you double check
>
>  - what Jonathan Neider wrote about GPLv3 and Apache2 is true
>  - perhaps check with Anthony Ramine, who is the only person besides
> me that has made changes in wildmatch.c, in b79c0c3 (wildmatch:
> properly fold case everywhere - 2013-05-30)
>
> then wildmatch.c is good for reuse. You probably need to check with
> other people who made changes in hex.c and git-compat-util.h.
> git-shortlog and git-blame could be used to get the email list of
> these people. But maybe it's just easier to rewrite those, hex.c is
> not big and I suspect you don't need much of git-compat-util.h.
> --
> Duy

> Hello,
>
> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c
> which you have modified part of in the git project.
>
> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into
> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR
> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614
>
> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of
> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.
>
> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses
> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the
> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.
>
> You can follow the discussion under
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264312
>
> Thank you very much,
> Bufolo

> This is just an email to all the people i have written in private
> about relicensing the files in need in TSS so they can reply to this
> email and it be recorded in the mailing list.
>
> The files are part of ctypes.c hex.c git-compat-util.h.
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c
>> which you have modified part of in the git project.
>>
>> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into
>> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR
>> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614
>>
>> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of
>> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.
>>
>> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses
>> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the
>> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.
>>
>> You can follow the discussion under
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264312
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Bufolo

> This is CC to Anthony Ramine.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is just an email to all the people i have written in private
>> about relicensing the files in need in TSS so they can reply to this
>> email and it be recorded in the mailing list.
>> 
>> The files are part of ctypes.c hex.c git-compat-util.h.
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c
>>> which you have modified part of in the git project.
>>> 
>>> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into
>>> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR
>>> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614
>>> 
>>> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of
>>> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses
>>> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the
>>> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.
>>> 
>>> You can follow the discussion under
>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264312
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much,
>>> Bufolo

> This is just an email to all the people i have written in private
> about relicensing the files in need in TSS so they can reply to this
> email and it be recorded in the mailing list.
>
> The files are part of ctypes.c hex.c git-compat-util.h.
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c
>> which you have modified part of in the git project.
>>
>> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into
>> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR
>> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614
>>
>> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of
>> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.
>>
>> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses
>> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the
>> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.

> This is just an email to all the people i have written in private
> about relicensing the files in need in TSS so they can reply to this
> email and it be recorded in the mailing list.
>
> The files are part of ctypes.c hex.c git-compat-util.h.
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm writing to you in regards to the files ctypes.c
>> which you have modified part of in the git project.
>>
>> I'm currently working on integrating gitignore pattern matching into
>> the_sivler_searcher(http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). PR
>> https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614
>>
>> For that i needed wildmatch.c and it's dependencies. That is parts of
>> ctypes.c lines 8 to 31.
>>
>> Unfortunately TSS is Apache licensed wheras git is GPL, those licenses
>> are incompatible and thus i ask if you agree that your portion if the
>> code is also licensed under Apache2 for the use in TSS.

> I'm not sure on how i would rewrite hex.c it is just an array.
>
> From git-compat-util.h i only needed a subset of the file (Lines 699
> to 785), as you assumed, but rewriting it also seems pointless as it
> is only a few defines and 4 very short functions.