Hello,
My name is Nikita and I'm from Devart https://www.devart.com/. I would like to contact someone from executive staff of Git. I would be very thankful for some information how to do this or if someone contacts me.
Thanks for attention and sorry if I disturbed someone.
Best regards Nikita Malikov
Re: Partnership with Git
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:21:38 +0200 "Nikita Malikov" <nikitam@devart.com> wrote:
> My name is Nikita and I'm from Devart https://www.devart.com/. > I would like to contact someone from executive staff of Git. I would > be very thankful for some information how to do this or if someone > contacts me.
Git is a free software volunteer project and as such, it has no "executive staff" in the sense enterprises put into it.
Can you maybe state your actual goals please?
Say, if you're looking for commercial support, we could possibly suggests a couple of pointers.
Re: Partnership with Git
Konstantin,
My goal is to establish partnership relations with Git because some of Devart's products support Git version control system (for example dbForge Studio for SQL Server https://www.devart.com/dbforge/sql/studio/). My team and I would be glad to come up with cross-marketing activities between Devart and Git. We think that some users of our development products would be interested to switch to Git version control system.
Best regards Nikita Malikov
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Konstantin Khomoutov" <kostix+git@007spb.ru> Sent: 21 February, 2017 14:22 To: "Nikita Malikov" <nikitam@devart.com> Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Partnership with Git
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:21:38 +0200 > "Nikita Malikov" <nikitam@devart.com> wrote: > >> My name is Nikita and I'm from Devart https://www.devart.com/. >> I would like to contact someone from executive staff of Git. I would >> be very thankful for some information how to do this or if someone >> contacts me. > > Git is a free software volunteer project and as such, it has no > "executive staff" in the sense enterprises put into it. > > Can you maybe state your actual goals please? > > Say, if you're looking for commercial support, we could possibly > suggests a couple of pointers. > >
Dov GrobgeldRe: Partnership with Git
Nikita,
As git is free software, you are free to use it in any way you see fit, as long as you adhere to its licensing terms, and to the copyright restrictions on using the term "git". Thus there is no need to ask permission and there does not on the git side exist any entity interested in "cross marketing activities". If your want to use git in your products, you are free to do so without asking, and if you need technical advice for how to go about integrating git in your products, you can either ask here, on stackoverflow, (and probably lots of other places) or hire a consultant that can help you.
Hope this helps, Dov
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Nikita Malikov <nikitam@devart.com> wrote:
> > Konstantin, > > My goal is to establish partnership relations with Git because some of > Devart's products support Git version control system (for example dbForge > Studio for SQL Server https://www.devart.com/dbforge/sql/studio/). > My team and I would be glad to come up with cross-marketing activities > between Devart and Git. We think that some users of our development products > would be interested to switch to Git version control system. > > Best regards > Nikita Malikov > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Konstantin Khomoutov" <kostix+git@007spb.ru> > Sent: 21 February, 2017 14:22 > To: "Nikita Malikov" <nikitam@devart.com> > Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org> > Subject: Re: Partnership with Git > > >> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:21:38 +0200 >> "Nikita Malikov" <nikitam@devart.com> wrote: >> >>> My name is Nikita and I'm from Devart https://www.devart.com/. >>> I would like to contact someone from executive staff of Git. I would >>> be very thankful for some information how to do this or if someone >>> contacts me. >> >> >> Git is a free software volunteer project and as such, it has no >> "executive staff" in the sense enterprises put into it. >> >> Can you maybe state your actual goals please? >> >> Say, if you're looking for commercial support, we could possibly >> suggests a couple of pointers. >> >> > >
Junio C HamanoRe: Partnership with Git
Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> writes:
> As git is free software, you are free to use it in any way you see fit, as > long as you adhere to its licensing terms, and to the copyright > restrictions on using the term "git". Thus there is no need to ask > permission and there does not on the git side exist any entity interested > in "cross marketing activities".
s/copyright/trademark/.
As one of Software Freedom Conservancy projects, I suspect that the Git PLC git@sfconservancy.org may be the closest to such "entity" that represents open source Git community's interest to the outside world with help from lawyers.
Not that I think Git PLC is interested in such a cross marketting arrangement, but if Devart wants to advertise on their webpage saying "we support Git by making contributions to SFC" or something like that, they are the people to talk to.
Re: Partnership with Git
Dov, Junio, Konstantin
Thank you for answering. Your information helped me!
And thank you Git Community for so quick and clear replies. We wish you all the best from Devart team =)
Best regards Nikita Malikov
Best regards Nikita Malikov
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com> Sent: 21 February, 2017 21:04 To: "Dov Grobgeld" <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> Cc: "Nikita Malikov" <nikitam@devart.com>; "Konstantin Khomoutov" <kostix+git@007spb.ru>; <git@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Partnership with Git
> Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> writes: > >> As git is free software, you are free to use it in any way you see fit, >> as >> long as you adhere to its licensing terms, and to the copyright >> restrictions on using the term "git". Thus there is no need to ask >> permission and there does not on the git side exist any entity interested >> in "cross marketing activities". > > s/copyright/trademark/. > > As one of Software Freedom Conservancy projects, I suspect that the > Git PLC git@sfconservancy.org may be the closest to such "entity" > that represents open source Git community's interest to the outside > world with help from lawyers. > > Not that I think Git PLC is interested in such a cross marketting > arrangement, but if Devart wants to advertise on their webpage > saying "we support Git by making contributions to SFC" or something > like that, they are the people to talk to. >