On 7/27/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote: > > 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. 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. Note that only the code going into the library needs to be LGPL. That should significantly reduce the number of authors that need to be contacted. A first step to fixing this would be to add an immediate requirement that all new code that is targeted to library functions be licensed LGPL. That will at least stop the problem from getting any worse. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Jul 28 02:11:53 2006
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