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filter-repo: re-license When I wrote git_fast_filter.py, I was unaware of and did not forsee libgit2. So, although the license said the project could be used under whatever license git.git was, there was still a potential barrier for usage by libgit2. I'm not sure if libgit2 will ever want to use filter-repo, but I don't want the barrier there and I would like to avoid a repeat of this problem. (Also, since filter-repo is for the most part a one-shot usage tool, I doubt that the normal copyleft provisions could provide much value.) MIT is widely used, compatible with just about everyting, and is preferred by Palantir (my current employer) for open source contributions. So, I contacted all other contributors (Jim is still at Sandia) and got permission to relicense. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
2019-07-16 19:44:30 +00:00
git-filter-repo itself and most the files in this repository (exceptions
noted below) are provided under the MIT license (see COPYING.mit).
filter-repo: add a few documentation files Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
2009-04-03 13:54:28 +00:00
filter-repo: re-license When I wrote git_fast_filter.py, I was unaware of and did not forsee libgit2. So, although the license said the project could be used under whatever license git.git was, there was still a potential barrier for usage by libgit2. I'm not sure if libgit2 will ever want to use filter-repo, but I don't want the barrier there and I would like to avoid a repeat of this problem. (Also, since filter-repo is for the most part a one-shot usage tool, I doubt that the normal copyleft provisions could provide much value.) MIT is widely used, compatible with just about everyting, and is preferred by Palantir (my current employer) for open source contributions. So, I contacted all other contributors (Jim is still at Sandia) and got permission to relicense. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
2019-07-16 19:44:30 +00:00
The usage of the MIT license probably makes filter-repo compatible with
everything, but just in case, these files can also be used under whatever
open source license[1] that git.git or libgit2 use now or in the future
(currently GPL[2] and GPL-with-linking-exception[3]). Further, the
examples (in contrib/filter-repo-demos/ and t/t9391/) can also be used
under the same license that libgit2 provides their examples under (CC0,
currently[4]).
filter-repo: add a few documentation files Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
2009-04-03 13:54:28 +00:00
filter-repo: re-license When I wrote git_fast_filter.py, I was unaware of and did not forsee libgit2. So, although the license said the project could be used under whatever license git.git was, there was still a potential barrier for usage by libgit2. I'm not sure if libgit2 will ever want to use filter-repo, but I don't want the barrier there and I would like to avoid a repeat of this problem. (Also, since filter-repo is for the most part a one-shot usage tool, I doubt that the normal copyleft provisions could provide much value.) MIT is widely used, compatible with just about everyting, and is preferred by Palantir (my current employer) for open source contributions. So, I contacted all other contributors (Jim is still at Sandia) and got permission to relicense. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
2019-07-16 19:44:30 +00:00
Exceptions:
filter-repo: add a few documentation files Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
2009-04-03 13:54:28 +00:00
filter-repo: re-license When I wrote git_fast_filter.py, I was unaware of and did not forsee libgit2. So, although the license said the project could be used under whatever license git.git was, there was still a potential barrier for usage by libgit2. I'm not sure if libgit2 will ever want to use filter-repo, but I don't want the barrier there and I would like to avoid a repeat of this problem. (Also, since filter-repo is for the most part a one-shot usage tool, I doubt that the normal copyleft provisions could provide much value.) MIT is widely used, compatible with just about everyting, and is preferred by Palantir (my current employer) for open source contributions. So, I contacted all other contributors (Jim is still at Sandia) and got permission to relicense. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
2019-07-16 19:44:30 +00:00
- The test harness (t/test-lib.sh, t/test-lib-functions.sh) is a slightly
modified copy of git.git's test harness (the difference being that my
copy doesn't require a built version of 'git' to be present). These
are thus GPL2 (see COPYING.gpl), and are individually marked as such.
filter-repo: add a few documentation files Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
2009-04-03 13:54:28 +00:00
filter-repo: re-license When I wrote git_fast_filter.py, I was unaware of and did not forsee libgit2. So, although the license said the project could be used under whatever license git.git was, there was still a potential barrier for usage by libgit2. I'm not sure if libgit2 will ever want to use filter-repo, but I don't want the barrier there and I would like to avoid a repeat of this problem. (Also, since filter-repo is for the most part a one-shot usage tool, I doubt that the normal copyleft provisions could provide much value.) MIT is widely used, compatible with just about everyting, and is preferred by Palantir (my current employer) for open source contributions. So, I contacted all other contributors (Jim is still at Sandia) and got permission to relicense. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
2019-07-16 19:44:30 +00:00
[1] ...as defined by the Open Source Initiative (https://opensource.org/)
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/COPYING
[3] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/master/COPYING
[4] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/master/examples/COPYING
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