Re: Licensing and the library version of git

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:

quoted

I think that part of the anwser for question "Why do people use GIT?" is that
they trust you and other maintainers that you do a good and stable job. Won't
creating several ports/forks/whatever destroy at least part of this?

Sure. But the point is, the GPLv2 isn't exactly up for discussion. People 
can complain all they want, but if they want to trust me, they'll take the 
GPLv2. It's that easy.

I think there'd be a justification for licensing part of git like sparse 
is licensed, for the same reasons. It wouldn't include any of the 
interesting operations, probably, but it would be worth having a canonical 
implementation of reading and writing the data structures, so other 
implementations don't screw that up.

You could probably even get away just copying these I/O operations, 
because there is obviously no other way to do it. Ergo, no enforcable 
copyright on those code sections.

Ciao,
Dscho