Patchworkβ test-lib.sh: Add explicit license detail, with change from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.

From 8693995fde71e8b028318e1e83bdbb6ae759335a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:41:24 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] test-lib.sh: Add explicit license detail, with change from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.

This file has had no explicit license information noted in it, but
has clearly been created and modified according to the terms of GPLv2
as with the rest of the git code base.

The purpose of relicensing is to allow other GPLv3+ projects (in
particular, the notmuch project: http://notmuchmail.org) to use this
same test-suite structure and to contribute changes back as well.

The relicensing was agreed to by Junio C Hamano here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/1389/focus=140156

and in follow-up messages by Sverre Rabbelier, Johannes Schindelin,
Pierre Habouzit, and Johannes Sixt.

Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
---

> Message-ID alone is not a good way to help people locate the request.
> Please at least mention what mailing list the message was sent to; better
> yet, do so like this:

Done as requested.

But while we're on the subject, let me at least make a case for
communication by way of Message-ID. The URL above is good for as long as
gmane continues to live, but that may not be as long as the git project
(and its mailing-list archives) are interesting.

Meanwhile, a message ID lives forever and can be used in multiple
contexts. For example, gmane does already support message-ID-based URLs:

http://mid.gmane.org/7vaav3bnr5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org

That interface happens to only display the single message, (requiring
clicking on the subject to see the thread), but one can imagine gmane
getting a similar interface to display the thread directly from the
message ID.

Meanwhile, people using systems like notmuch can also use the message ID
directly to view the thread, with something like:

    notmuch show id:7vaav3bnr5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org

So I'm very much in favor of using message IDs more regularly, (and just
expecting that users and their tools will be more accepting of them).

But for now, you've hopefully got your commit message the way you want
it. :-)

 t/test-lib.sh |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:

> From 8693995fde71e8b028318e1e83bdbb6ae759335a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:41:24 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] test-lib.sh: Add explicit license detail, with change from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.

Please drop the above the next time.

> The relicensing was agreed to by Junio C Hamano here:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/1389/focus=140156
>
> and in follow-up messages by Sverre Rabbelier, Johannes Schindelin,
> Pierre Habouzit, and Johannes Sixt.

FWIW, I only said "_at least_ you need consent from them", and it was not
meant to be an exhaustive list.  "blame -C -C -C" may tell you more.

You are the party that wants this relicensing, not me.  Please do not
burden me with excessive legwork for you, but help me a bit more
proactively to make this happen.

> Meanwhile, a message ID lives forever and can be used in multiple
> contexts.

Oh, I never said "do not use message ID".  I said "message ID alone is not
good enough for most people".  Users of gmane and notmuch who know the
tool they use would benefit from having message ID, _too_, but even if you
were a user of notmuch, unless you have subscribed to the list and have
your own archive, you wouldn't be able to say "show id:frotz".

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/1389/focus=140156
[...]
>> Meanwhile, a message ID lives forever and can be used in multiple
>> contexts.
>
> Oh, I never said "do not use message ID".  I said "message ID alone is not
> good enough for most people". 

FWIW, gmane allows links of the form

http://mid.gmane.org/7vaav8hpfo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org

which have the advantage of being simple to use, and still contain the
necessary information to get the message in case gmane dies.

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:42:30 -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Please drop the above the next time.

Oops. Yes, I missed that.

> FWIW, I only said "_at least_ you need consent from them", and it was not
> meant to be an exhaustive list.  "blame -C -C -C" may tell you more.

Fair enough.

> You are the party that wants this relicensing, not me.  Please do not
> burden me with excessive legwork for you, but help me a bit more
> proactively to make this happen.

I hope you see I haven't asked you to do any additional legwork. A
suggestion was made to construct a patch, which I did. You always have
the option of accepting or rejecting the patch as you see fit.

> Oh, I never said "do not use message ID".  I said "message ID alone is not
> good enough for most people".  Users of gmane and notmuch who know the
> tool they use would benefit from having message ID, _too_, but even if you
> were a user of notmuch, unless you have subscribed to the list and have
> your own archive, you wouldn't be able to say "show id:frotz".

Certainly. My assumption was that in a commit message for git, readers
would naturally assume that a message ID with no additional
specification could be found in the archives of the standard git mailing
list, (which is the case here). Otherwise, I would have qualified the
message ID more specifically.

-Carl