Re: Using test-lib.sh under GPLv3?

[Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>]

Dear Pierre, Johannes (2x) and Sverre,

as you can read bellow, I'd like to use git's test-lib.sh in a GPLv3
project. Do you mind if I use your work in that file under GPLv3?

Thanks
Michal

On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:39:28 +0100, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> Dear Junio,
> 
> I like the simple and powerful test suite used by Git and I would like
> to use something like that in Notmuch project (http://notmuchmail.org/).
> Notmuch is licenced under GPLv3 and we think that things will be simpler
> if everything in the repository is licenced the same. You are mentioned
> as a copyright holder in test-lib.sh and t0000-basic.sh so I'd like to
> ask you: Would you mind using parts of these files under GPLv3?
> 
> You can see the patches for how I'd like to use these files at
> http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/thread.html#1431

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:54:19 -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I don't mind for the parts I wrote, which is the basic infrastructure
> (output redirection, skipping certain tests, expecting failure, etc).
> My blessing would be enough to relicense it if you are are going to take
> the file from some old version like 04ece59 (GIT_SKIP_TESTS: allow users
> to omit tests that are known to break, 2006-12-28) and base your work on
> it, but otherwise it would not be nearly sufficient.
> 
> Other people worked on polishing it over time and they all hold copyright
> on their parts.  Notable parts that are not mine and that are not git
> specific are:
> 
>  - color output support is mostly by Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
>  - valgrind support: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>  - conditional test: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
>  - summarizing the results: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>