Re: Licensing and the library version of git

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Dear diary, on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:36:16PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> said that...
> Can the library version of git be licensed LGPL instead of GPL? If it
> is GPL then it can't be linked into non-GPL projects like Eclipse.

Probably not since it essentially _is_ the base Git code now. You would
need to find all the Git copyright holders and convince them to
relicence it, since there are thoughts about moving more code to the
library, and even parts of scripts might eventually end up there after
rewrite in C.

And I didn't even get to discussing whether LGPL is actually desirable
for Git.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Snow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise.
Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam
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