Hi, On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > > > > > > I think that part of the anwser for question "Why do people use GIT?" is that > > > they trust you and other maintainers that you do a good and stable job. Won't > > > creating several ports/forks/whatever destroy at least part of this? > > > > Sure. But the point is, the GPLv2 isn't exactly up for discussion. People > > can complain all they want, but if they want to trust me, they'll take the > > GPLv2. It's that easy. > > I think there'd be a justification for licensing part of git like sparse > is licensed, for the same reasons. It wouldn't include any of the > interesting operations, probably, but it would be worth having a canonical > implementation of reading and writing the data structures, so other > implementations don't screw that up. You could probably even get away just copying these I/O operations, because there is obviously no other way to do it. Ergo, no enforcable copyright on those code sections. Ciao, Dscho - : 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