Hi, [culling the Cc: list to the most-likely interested parties, Cc:ing Andreas and Pierre] On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:32:44AM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:35, Johannes Schindelin > > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: > > >> 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) > > > > Yeah, guess who put that there ;). > > > > > 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. > > > > Excellent point, I think we could safely argue that if we only expose > > 'import' and 'export' (so adhere to the fast-import/fast-export format > > that is already widely used), that it is indeed not a derative work. > > It is not so clear when you begin to use facilities such as strbuf, etc. > Maybe dual-licensing these parts would be enough, though, but that still > means doing some homework (getting approval from all contributors) AFAIR Andreas already did most of the chasing down for libgit2. 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