On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

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> 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.

I do care.  I think the BSD license is too permissive.  There are really 
nifty pieces of code in Git that I would be really sorry to see go 
proprietary.

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> 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).

Eclipse is Java and that issue is already solved with JGIT which doesn't 
reuse C code from git.

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> 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.

Everybody can and does link against glibc on Linux which is LGPL.  So 
that doesn't affect "usage".

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> 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 :)

Sure, and that's where we differ.  I let you use my code for free, as 
long as you give me back your improvements to it.  This way everybody 
stays honnest.  I think this is Linus' view as well which he often 
resume as "tit for tat".


Nicolas
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