David Brown <git@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:07:04PM -0700, Scott Chacon wrote: > >> Think about trying to incorporate this into something proprietary, >> Shawn - how much of a pain is it going to be to get that license >> reviewed in Google? However, LGPL I'm sure there is already a >> reviewed policy. Now, since that may be a pain, time that Shawn could >> have been spending being paid to work on the library is lost because >> they can't use it, or it takes weeks/months to review it. That's my >> concern. > > The gcc exception license should have been reviewed by anyone who has > ever build anything proprietary out of gcc. Indeed. And gcc is a *very* popular compiler on Linux distributions. A lot of commerical software is built under it, and distributed in binary-only form. Those companies have already done the legal review they felt necessary before shipping (and selling) that software. -- 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
