Re: re-licensing pkt-line.c code

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Scott Chacon wrote:
Hey all,

I am writing a partial implementation of git in Objective-C so I can
get a git server running on an iphone, and hopefully it could
eventually be used in a mac desktop app that could be distributed
without the git binary. If anyone is interested in the project, you
can get it here:

http://github.com/schacon/objective-git

There are about 20-25 lines of code from pkt-line.c that I think were
originally written back in 2005 that I would like to use so I don't
have to re-implement them.  It is pretty generic - it is just the code
that converts an int into a 4 char hex and back that is placed at the
beginning of several of the network protocol lines.

http://github.com/schacon/objective-git/tree/master/ObjGitServerHandler.m#L554

I have to relicense this, since I can't legally distribute my source
code for the iphone app due to Apples f**king NDA.  I would like to
release my ObjectiveGit project under the MIT (or, alternately, LGPL).
 Is Linus the right person to ask for this permission?  What is the
best way to do so?


Linus wrote nearly all of pkt-line.c, so yes, he'd be the right person
to ask. If the lines you need were co-authored by someone else, you'll
need to ask that co-author too.

 I could come up with an alternate way to
accomplish the same thing, but it seems like a waste of time to do so,
and helpful to nobody.


Well, tracking down the original author(s) could turn out to be harder.

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