[darcs-devel] May I please combine darcs with OpenSSH? (and Eclipse and SWT too?)

[Jason Dagit]

On 5/21/06, zooko at zooko.com <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
>
> Dear David Roundy and darcs-devel:
[snip]
> Therefore, I would like to ask permission from you, the authors of darcs, to
> combine darcs with openssh, Eclipse, and SWT.  I hereby ask the copyright
> holders to grant me permission to use the code to which they hold copyright
> with the following amendment to the GPL:
>
> "As a special exception, you have permission to link this program with code
>  which is licensed under the Common Public Licence, the Eclipse Public Licence,
>  or the OpenSSL License, as long as you follow the requirements of the GNU GPL
>  in regard to all of the software in the executable aside from the software
>  which is licensed under the Common Public License or the Eclipse Public
>  License."
>

I've only contributed a tiny bit to darcs, but you have full
cooperation 1) because I want to see darcs get spread as far and wide
as possible 2) I don't see any negative impact to this.

Thanks,
Jason