Re: Licensing and the library version of git

On 7/27/06, Anand Kumria [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:11:00 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

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On 7/27/06, Petr Baudis [off-list ref] wrote:

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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 ;-).

Inability to integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio is going to have a
lot of impact on the cross platform use of git.

Could you stop with the histrionics please?

It is usually wise not to make comments like this, they don't help in
building the community.

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Is a conscious
decision being made to stop this integration or is this just unplanned
side effect of the original license? If this is an unplanned side
effect, the quicker we move, the easier it is to fix.

So, using CVSNT (a GPL'd SCCI provider) and git-cvsserver would be a way
to continue.  I'm assuming that the primary functionality they want via
their IDE is checkout/diff/commit/log.

Now, that's a great strategy. Tell the large project you are
interested in switching off from CVS to git that they need to run a
CVS emulation gateway forever. I don't think a switch has much of a
chance of happening.

Quite a lot of Windows developers have no problems using multiple tools
for things, I'd assume they would also be able to use any existent port
of git (to Windows) to do the esoteric things like branching/bisect/etc.

Anand

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