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From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
To: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reftable format implementation in C and Go
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:04:28 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191120143428.u3rmuufhphbntgm5@yadavpratyush.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFQ2z_PBPPQuJYA-mvKz532GikBXureOi1ePr7YdBRJbxOJCeA@mail.gmail.com>

On 20/11/19 06:22AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 6:19 AM Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> wrote:
> >> Would you mind, however, to relicense the code under a license compatible
> >> with GPLv2? Currently your code is under the Apache License (which I heard
> >> somewhere is probably incompatible with the GPLv2 used by the Git
> >> project):
> >> https://github.com/google/reftable/blob/6cd8dbb4106d18627f442d3148de71d7db43d4b6/c/api.h#L1-L13
> >>
> 
> according to our open source lawyers, Apache is actually compatible
> with GPLv2, but I think we could dual-license the code.

The GNU website [0] says:

  Apache License, Version 2.0

    This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GNU GPL.

    Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2, 
    because it has some requirements that are not in that GPL version. 
    These include certain patent termination and indemnification 
    provisions. The patent termination provision is a good thing, which 
    is why we recommend the Apache 2.0 license for substantial programs 
    over other lax permissive licenses.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav

      reply	other threads:[~2019-11-20 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAFQ2z_Pe1Pdjy22VmCMzf4Gvx3wte1eQRn_PjSisJbr9_y7bbg@mail.gmail.com>
2019-11-20 11:48 ` Reftable format implementation in C and Go Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]   ` <CAFQ2z_PiuFe=ZKNaZG3=2AqjcNRb-k5-CYSXeN6MQ0r5sv4S=g@mail.gmail.com>
2019-11-20 14:22     ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-11-20 14:34       ` Pratyush Yadav [this message]

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