On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > See junio's example. It's rather easy to add hooks into the library to > implement a feature outside of it. It's even possible to do it while > preserving the ABI fully IMHO (by being a strict superset of it). > > The patch would be so trivial, that I see no reason why they wouldn't > provide it. Though the real implementation of the feature that would be > delegated through it would be in their closed source stuff. But at that point it's a matter of public perception. It would clearly be against the spirit of the license even though the license itself couldn't prevent such tortuous practices. Those people doing such things would clearly be identified as bad guys and get bad press, and libgit contributors could even attempt law suits based on the derived work angle. That might be just enough to prevent such things to happen. OTOH they would certainly come out clean if the license was BSD since the spirit of that license explicitly allows closing up the whole library and adding extra features. Nicolas -- 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
