Re: ag, **, and the GPL

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On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 20:50 -0800, Matthew Kaniaris wrote:
> The Silver Search (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher), is
> a small, open source, cross platform searching utility written as a
> replacement for ack.  One of the major benefits of Ag (and a source
> for much of its speed) is that it obeys .gitignore.  However, Ag
> currently treats gitignores as regexs which produces incorrect results
> for e.g. **.  I'd like to add support to ag to obey the .gitignore
> spec but I'm not keen on implementing yet another fnmatch clone.  Ag
> is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 which to the best of
> my understanding is incompatible with the GPLv2.  Would you grant me
> permission to reuse wildmatch.c (and necessary includes) for use in
> Ag?

I already implemented this without using any git code at
https://github.com/novalis/the_silver_searcher.  The patch was rejected
because it slowed down ag slightly (or perhaps because it was overly
complex). 


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