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Re: Tortoise SVN- license version

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:18:30 -0500

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 18:56, Simon Large
<simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/5  <francis.b.abreu_at_exxonmobil.com>:
>> Simon,
>> The reason I'm writing you and not the mailing list is that I need an
>> 'official' answer from one of the developers. This is in order to comply
>> with ExxonMobil's internal policies and to ensure we will not infringe
>> anyone's intellectual property rights.
>
> You can still use the mailing list.
>
> And you can answer your own question by looking in {program
> files}/TortoiseSVN. There you will find a set of license files for
> TortoiseSVN and its sub-components. Some parts are GPL-2, some are
> Apache, some are modified BSD. And yes, we know that GNU thinks these
> are incompatible.
>
> Out of interest, why do you need to know? Please reply to the mailing list.

I'm having a bit of a flashback here.

http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2008-05/0101.shtml
http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2008-05/0194.shtml

Odd that ExxonMobil would have a concern 18 months ago, then nothing,
and now something similar comes up again.

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