Re: ag, **, and the GPL

2014-11-18 Thread David Turner
On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 20:50 -0800, Matthew Kaniaris wrote: The Silver Search (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher), is a small, open source, cross platform searching utility written as a replacement for ack. One of the major benefits of Ag (and a source for much of its speed) is

Re: ag, **, and the GPL

2014-11-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Matthew Kaniaris wrote: Ag is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 which to the best of my understanding is incompatible with the GPLv2. Would you grant me permission to reuse wildmatch.c (and necessary includes)

Re: ag, **, and the GPL

2014-11-18 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:57 AM, David Turner dtur...@twopensource.com wrote: On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 20:50 -0800, Matthew Kaniaris wrote: The Silver Search (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher), is a small, open source, cross platform searching utility written as a replacement for

Re: ag, **, and the GPL

2014-11-18 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Duy, what would you think of making git's wildmatch.c GPL v2 or v3, at your option? wildmatch.c is not really owned by me (latest change is from Anthony Ramine), but I would be ok with that. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe

ag, **, and the GPL

2014-11-17 Thread Matthew Kaniaris
The Silver Search (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher), is a small, open source, cross platform searching utility written as a replacement for ack. One of the major benefits of Ag (and a source for much of its speed) is that it obeys .gitignore. However, Ag currently treats gitignores

Re: ag, **, and the GPL

2014-11-17 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Matthew Kaniaris mkania...@gmail.com wrote: Would you grant me permission to reuse wildmatch.c (and necessary includes) for use in wildmatch (in git) is originally from rsync. You need to ask them for permission as well. I'm ok with relicensing my changes in