Hi, On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:03:43AM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:02, Johannes Schindelin > > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Would it not make sense to implement git-remote-svn as a C program? > > > That should help matters especially on Windows, where git-svn is > > > very slow due to its using MSys (which is a stripped-down Cygwin, as > > > you know, jumping through hoops to bring some POSIX-iness to > > > Windows). > > > > It would very much be sense to do so, perhaps we should update the > > wiki to say that implementing it in C is strongly preferred? > > It is already mentioned on the wiki that this would probably be a > problem, license-wise. (the svn library is Apache license, which is > incompatible with GPLv2) So git-remote-svn would have to be under an Apache-compatible license, so what? It is not as if git-remote-svn was a derivative work of Git, just because it abides by a very simple command-line interface that happens to be defined in Git, but would work anywhere else, too. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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