On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:24:14PM +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > Last but not least, I believe parts of git-core are currently easy to > > just take. For example, any code *I* wrote, I hereby give permission to > > relicense it in any of the following licenses: BSD-like, MIT-like, > > WTFPL. > > First........... is there really a need to re-license it? > If so then the choice of license is IMHO rather important. Hmm yeah, GPL has the viral link issue, and there is a real use of embedding the libgit in many projects. There is a use for it: front-ends to git from editors, for closed-source projects of various sorts, ... All of those right now must do a reimplementation of what they need. As soon as they need some kind of performance, exec()ing git-* commands doesn't fly. Git is currently mostly "GPLv2 or later". A BSDish license was mentioned, because it's the most permissive one and that nobody cared that much, though a LGPL/GPL-with-GCC-exception would probably fly. Many of the people needing a library for libgit are probably reading the list, I'll let them comment. The kind of license you propose would totally suite my needs, and I think, most of the one discussed at GitTogether'08 (except for the eclipse people disliking GPL'ed stuff, but anyways there was the issue of C code being non pure java anyways, so maybe Shawn can comment on that bit, I don't recall the exact specifics I must reckon). OT: FWIW I prefer BSDish licenses (even the MIT actually) for libraries because I believe that computing is overall better if everyone can use the right tool for the task, and I don't want to prevent people from using good stuff (I hope I write good stuff ;P) because of the license. And I don't care about people don't giving back to me, those are not the kind of people who would have given back if it was GPL'ed anyways. But I understand this is a completely personal view, and I'm not even trying to persuade you :) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx OOO http://www.madism.org
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