> Shawn posted the exact text. The spirit of that license is that anyone can > use an unmodified version of the library for whatever they want, but it's > illegal to link non-GPL software to an altered version of the library. That > is, the git community will get all changes back while other projects can > use the official version of the library without having to worry about > licensing issues. EvilCompany cannot make changes to the library and then > link non-GPL'd software to their changed version. They can do that if they > send their library changes upstream and then only use them once they're > considered "official" though. Do you mean if I write a patch to libgit2, send it upstream and make it public on my website but it is not accepted upstream, I cannot link my modified libgit2 version (i. e. libgit2 + my patch) to my non-GPL software? It looks insane to me: I wrote the patch and made it public but you guys did not accept it! -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -- 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
