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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam•org>,
	Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian•org>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: libgit2 - a true git library
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:56:51 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3tzasfhgb.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081031234115.GD14786@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org> writes:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:

> > Although no license asks this, my wish is that if somebody built on top of
> > what I wrote to make the world a better place, I'd like the same access to
> > that additional code so that I too can enjoy the improved world.  Because
> > almost all of my code in git.git are under GPLv2, in reality I do not have
> > any access to your software as long as you do not distribute your
> > additional code that made the world a better place, which is a bit sad.
> 
> IMHO, its a flaw of the GPL.  GitHub anyone?  Heck, even Google uses
> a lot of GPL'd software internally (yes, we have Linux desktops and
> servers) but not all of the software we distribute internally goes
> external, so not all of our patches are published.  *sigh*
> 
> I've actually stayed awake at night sometimes wondering what the
> world would be like if the GPL virual clause forced the source code
> for a website to be opened, or forced you to publish your code
> even if you never distribute binaries beyond "you" (where "you"
> is some mega corp in many countries with many employees).

There is such license, and it is called AGPLv3, Affero GPL[1].

And of course Google prohibits (or did prohibit) using it for projects
hosted at Google Code... wonder why... ;-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGPL
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-31 17:07 libgit2 - a true git library Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 17:28 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-10-31 17:29   ` Pieter de Bie
2008-10-31 17:47 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 18:41   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 18:54     ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 19:57       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 20:12         ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 20:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-31 21:58       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 17:30     ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 18:44       ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-01 18:48         ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 20:29         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 21:58           ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-02  1:50             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-03 10:17               ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-02  1:56       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-02  9:25         ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 20:24   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-31 20:29     ` david
2008-10-31 20:56       ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-31 21:43         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 21:50           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 21:51           ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 21:31     ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 22:10       ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 10:52         ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-31 23:24       ` Pieter de Bie
2008-10-31 23:28         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 23:49           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-01  0:02             ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01  0:19               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01  1:02                 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01  0:13             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01  1:15               ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01  1:19                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01  1:45                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01  1:52                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01  2:26                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-01 11:01                         ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 13:50                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 17:01                             ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01 20:26                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-31 23:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-31 23:33       ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-31 23:41       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 23:56         ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-11-01  0:41         ` david
2008-11-01  1:00           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01  1:04             ` david
2008-11-01  1:08               ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01  1:33                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01  1:38                   ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01  1:49                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01  1:43                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01  1:53                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-01 22:57                       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-02  0:26                         ` Scott Chacon
2008-11-02  1:07                           ` Scott Chacon
2008-11-02  1:36                             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-02  5:09                             ` David Brown
2008-11-03 16:20                               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01  1:06           ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-01  1:36             ` david
2008-10-31 20:24   ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-31 21:59   ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-31 22:01     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-31 22:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-01 11:17       ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-31 23:22     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-31 23:18 ` Bruno Santos
2008-10-31 23:25   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-01 19:18 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-01 20:42   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-02  2:30     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-02  9:19     ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-03 13:08     ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-08 13:26 ` Steve Frécinaux
2008-11-08 14:35   ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-08 17:27     ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-09 10:17       ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-09 21:02         ` Shawn O. Pearce

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