Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: > Scott Chacon wrote: >> >> 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 [...] >> >> 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). > >> 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. Its already cost more time to ask for permission to reuse these 20-25 lines of code than it would take to figure out how to write it yourself, and code it. And Linus still hasn't had a chance to chime in on this thread. My guess is you aren't going to get approval from him to relicense his code. But he doesn't hold a monopoly on int->hex conversion algorithms so you should be able to implement something that produces the same results, given the same inputs, and not have him sue you in some Utah court. -- Shawn. -- 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
