Re: [PATCH] use natural ordering to display list of branches.

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2008/6/6 Cedric Vivier <cedricv@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2008/6/5 Cedric Vivier <cedricv@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> +  strnatcmp.c -- Perform 'natural order' comparisons of strings in C.
>>> +  Copyright (C) 2000, 2004 by Martin Pool <mbp sourcefrog net>
>>
>> IANAL, but I'm not 100% sure clauses 2a or 3 are strictly GPL
>> compatible (especially as "altered from" is unlikely to be interpreted
>> in only one way).
>>
>> Perhaps we can ask the original author (cc'd) if he is prepared to
>> license it under GPL2?
>>
>
> I've found a discussion on the Apache mailing-list where the author,
> Martin Pool seems to ack that this is ok to include his code in GPL'ed
> code or even to relicense it :
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/10/msg00016.html
>
> Also maybe we could use glibc's strverscmp instead, but am not sure of
> its portability ?

Ah ok, I didn't recognise the zlib license. A quick google suggests it
is GPL compatible. Sorry for the noise.

Mike
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