On 16-07-2022 21:56, Abhradeep Chakraborty wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 7:50 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Another possibility is to get the library to dual-license itself, >> running "git shortlog -sn" on it it seems it's mainly written by one >> contributor, with a relatively short tail of others, perhaps they'd be >> willing to dual-license at the prospect of having git use it? > > Kaartic suggested the same and it seems better than the previous one. > > As a side note, the current EWAH implementation is also relicensed[1] > to make it compatible with Git. As these two are mainly written by the > same person, I think he will help us this time also. > The EWAH case is a bit different. The original EWAH implementation [ewah-cpp] was in C++. It was then ported to C [ewah-c] by Git contributors [ewah-git]. The ported version has been relicensed under GPLv2 with Deniel Lemire's permission. The case with CRoaring is that the implementation already exists in C [croaring] and that is the one which is licensed under Apache V2. I'm not sure how relicensing works for already existing code. I suppose we could enquire Daniel Lemire about using the Apache licensed code for Git. Let's hope for the best. [[ References ]] [ewah-cpp]: https://github.com/lemire/EWAHBoolArray [ewah-c]: https://github.com/vmg/libewok [ewah-git]: The initial commit of 'ewah' directory mentions the relicensing: e1273106f6 (ewah: compressed bitmap implementation, 2013-11-14) [croaring]: https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/CRoaring > Thanks! > > [1] https://github.blog/2015-09-22-counting-objects/#footnote-1 -- Sivaraam
