Why GPL?

[guettli]

First I thougt "pygit2 looks good". Then I saw the license ... :-(

I must not use GPL software.

Why did you choose this license?

[jdavid]

GPLv2 with linking exception

pygit2 uses the same license as libgit2.

So why libgit2 uses this license? Quoting @vmg :

it uses code sourced from Git, whose authors requested we maintain the GPL and allowed us to add a linking exception.

[kuwv]

@guettli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception