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[milki <milki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds good to me.

On 11:14 Sat 08 Jun     , Jeremy Whitlock wrote:
> +1
> 
> On Saturday, June 8, 2013, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 
> > (CC'ing dulwich-users)
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > You're receiving this email because you are one of the contributors to
> > Dulwich (http://samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/).
> >
> > The current license of Dulwich is GPLv2 or later. I would like to
> > change that to version 2.0 of the Apache license for the following
> > reasons:
> >
> >  * Several permissively licensed projects that use Dulwich or
> >    want to use Dulwich have indicated that the GPL is a problem
> >    for them.
> >
> >  * More consistent with other modules in the Python world and Python
> >    itself, where permissive licenses are common
> >
> > Since the Apache2 license is incompatible with the GPLv2
> > (it is compatible with GPL version 3.0), we would have to dual-license
> > under GPLv2 and Apache v2 license - to keep projects that depend on
> > Dulwich and are GPLv2 licensed happy.
> >
> > Please let me know what your thoughts are on relicensing, if you're
> > okay to see your contribution to Dulwich available under Apachev2 license
> > or if you have any questions.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jelmer
> >


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milki