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[Gary van der Merwe <garyvdm@xxxxxxxxx>]

My contributions are very minor, so I'm not sure if my response is
required. I do agree with the change however.

Gary

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxx> 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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