Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 06:10:20PM +0200, Romain Geissler wrote: > >> > Have you considered pulling the parse-options parser from git into >> > libgit2? It's one of the more modularized and lib-ified bits of code in >> > git already. >> >> Yes and No. We have already copied some code from git : parse-option, >> the error handling functions, a part of the run-command block and a >> part of the compatibility layer. To my mind, there is no reason to >> pull it into libgit2 as it's only a client feature that works on >> strings, and libgit2 does not aim at being a client, only a git >> library. > > Yeah, good point. Definitely it should not be part of the libgit2 > library itself. IIRC, libgit2 has a lot looser license than ours, and the core GPLv2 part of C git cannot be directly copied without authors' consent; relicensing of necessary parts of C git needs to be arranged. -- 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