Re: re-licensing pkt-line.c code

Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] wrote:

Scott Chacon wrote:

quoted

There are about 20-25 lines of code from pkt-line.c that I think were
originally written back in 2005 that I would like to use [...]

I have to relicense this, since I can't legally distribute my source
code for the iphone app due to Apples f**king NDA.  I would like to
release my ObjectiveGit project under the MIT (or, alternately, LGPL).

quoted

 I could come up with an alternate way to
accomplish the same thing, but it seems like a waste of time to do so,
and helpful to nobody.

Well, tracking down the original author(s) could turn out to be harder.

Its already cost more time to ask for permission to reuse these
20-25 lines of code than it would take to figure out how to write
it yourself, and code it.  And Linus still hasn't had a chance to
chime in on this thread.

My guess is you aren't going to get approval from him to relicense
his code.  But he doesn't hold a monopoly on int->hex conversion
algorithms so you should be able to implement something that produces
the same results, given the same inputs, and not have him sue you
in some Utah court.

-- 
Shawn.