On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Inability to integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio is going to have a > lot of impact on the cross platform use of git. Is a conscious > decision being made to stop this integration or is this just unplanned > side effect of the original license? If this is an unplanned side > effect, the quicker we move, the easier it is to fix. I don't think the choice of GPLv2 is an "unplanned side effect". It's a fact. I personally don't much like the LGPL. I'd also like to point out that unlike every single horror I've ever witnessed when looking closer at SCM products, git actually has a simple design, with stable and reasonably well-documented data structures. In fact, I'm a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it's one of the reasons git has been fairly successful (*). So it's easy enough to just write whatever Java code or something to just access the databases yourself. The object model of git may be smart, but it's neither proprietary nor patented. I suspect it's often a lot easier to integrate git into other projects _that_ way, rather than try to actually port the code itself. Linus (*) I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html