Re: git fast-import/fast-export

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 20:02, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Isn't fast-import designed to be used as a downstream side of a pipe that
> > is fed by an independent program you write (and may link with libsvn)? ?It
> > wouldn't care what license that data producer program is distributed under.
> 
> Yes, I'm not worried about using the 'git-fast-import' or the
> 'git-fast-export' binary, I want to use-and-modify the parsing code to
> work as a fast-import/fast-export frontend to svn _on top_ of using
> those binaries..

Oh.  Yuck.

I guess I can give my blessing to relicense anything in fast-import
that I've written from GPLv2 to GPLv2 or v3.  But as Dscho points
out, there are many authors in even the parsing code.  You will
need to get consent from all of them.

-- 
Shawn.
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