Re: Licensing and the library version of git

Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:54:54PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jon Smirl [off-list ref] said that...

In general libraries should be licensed LGPL to avoid the license
incompatibility problem. A GPL library forces the main app to be GPL
too.

But really another main app here (Git) is ending up in the library.

You can still always use the "Git ABI" - the commands. Or you could try
having a GPL'd "Git/Eclipse toolkit" which would reduce the barrier to
only single exec per Git invocation or something, but it would be
probably somewhat tricky on the derived works playground.

You may like trying to force GPL onto the app but many apps are
stuck with the license they have and can't be changed since there is
no way to contact the original developers.

At this point, git-shortlog lists exactly 200 people (at least entries
like Unknown or No name are all linux@horizon.com ;-).

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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