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From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Contribution licensing question(s)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:59:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BFT+_WXyYFN1t18TLaLzZfJYtGAS3SqK3TxPT6toH-obw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171101183829.mwoi7urka3hze3pm@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff,

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> This was mostly done for the libgit2 project, which uses GPL with a
> linking exception:
>
>   https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/master/COPYING
>
> When that project started, they asked for dual-license permission from
> various git.git contributors, which is documented in that repo:
>
>   https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/master/git.git-authors

Ah, thanks, not sure why I had mis-remembered that as being a jgit
thing.  Thanks for jogging my memory.  I think that (and your comment
to just grant other projects a different license) answers the main
question; I'll take it back and see what they say.

Thanks,
Elijah

      reply	other threads:[~2017-11-01 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-01 15:50 Contribution licensing question(s) Elijah Newren
2017-11-01 18:32 ` Stefan Beller
2017-11-01 18:38 ` Jeff King
2017-11-01 18:59   ` Elijah Newren [this message]

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