From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git mirrors Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:06:14 +0900 Message-ID: <87obxlpmbt.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <8762k095n4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871uuksdxi.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lissh32y.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87zkh8e286.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87d3e4gttq.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ehyjrhxh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d3e2rfte.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <878voqfiaw.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lisq8bu3.fsf@gmail.com> <87pqi2dwds.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87hb3e86vi.fsf@gmail.com> <87vcrunfxw.fsf@gnu.org> <87lisqnf47.fsf@interalia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318478787 19544 80.91.229.12 (13 Oct 2011 04:06:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:06:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Burton Samograd Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 13 06:06:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RECYo-00018B-SS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:06:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RECYo-0007Ad-AB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:06:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54759) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RECYl-00079t-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RECYj-0003AC-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:06:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:42008) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RECYi-00039S-PO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38B99707BB; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:06:14 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9C8981A2739; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:06:14 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87lisqnf47.fsf@interalia.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0a1 under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" 6c76f5b7e2e3 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145098 Archived-At: Burton Samograd writes: > What does it take to make a project an 'offical GNU project'? See "What it means for a program to be a GNU package" in > Why could git not be an 'offical GNU project'? In a word, "Linus Torvalds." More seriously, take a look at the source. Although it *is* GPLv2, a grep through the documentation in /usr/share/doc/git-1.7.7 on a Gentoo system showed exactly one reference to the GPL, which states that the only license for git is GPLv2. I don't recall seeing any copyright/permission headers anywhere in the tree, and no advertisements for free software or GNU or the FSF. This is not a candidate for a GNU package, in fact if I didn't know Linus is too stiff-necked to pull an Eric A. Young I'd think this was a deliberate strategy to prevent inclusion of git as a GNU package. Linus *does* free software, but he is unwilling to pay lip service to the Free Software Movement just to get the GNU imprimatur on his code, and pretty obviously he has a very different take on the whole thing from the Free Software Movement.