On 10/4/07, Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jakub, > nice work you've done there. Well done! Half done. But thanks. By the way, I'd put final data from the survey as an attachement at http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007 Currently there is data I used to generate this summary, in CSV format. I have used horrible Perl script to tabularize free-form questions, removing comments etc., and to generate tables in this summary. > On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > Note that Git is GPLv2, and it will probably stay that forever, so you > > are _free_ to start a commercial support scheme for Git, but others > > are free not to choose it. This question is to get to know if there is > > sufficient demand for commercial Git support for it to be viable. > > Once again (AFAIR this was already raised during one of the previous > summary) what's the link between GPLv2 and commercial support? You > seem to imply that because Git won't move to GPLv3, it's a good thing > for potential paid support, or something. I don't quite see how > GPLvX comes into play with commercial support. I'm not a license > expert though. The only link between GPL and commercial support is that GPL does not prohibit commercial support (like noncommercial-free licenses for example), and that having commercial support doesn't mean that license would change to proprietary (it cannot). -- Jakub Narebski - 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
