pretty dystopian to ask a robot to recreate your favorite software just so you can relicense it for your business venture
We clearly learned from how Git does operations and emulated it in order to function interoperably, the same way that Gitoxide and libgit2 have, and released it under a license that would be the most valuable for people wanting to use a linkable library, the same way that Gitoxide and libgit2 have.
What a weaselly way to put it.
A GPL library, as I'm sure you know, is perfectly usable by anyone including jujutsu and anyone else. They just have to also license under the GPL and this is no barrier to open source projects.
Ok, my coffee just kicked in and I'm incensed. Might go do an FSF donation.
Not impossible. It forces the code using the library to be under a GPL-compatible license and requires the binary to be released under the GPL license.
The distinction is quite important. It's only impossible in the mind of someone who wants to release proprietary software. Even for people releasing software under permissive license it's not impossible, just highly inconvenient (and the LGPL is always an option in this case).
And what issues did GPL impose on the community all these 21 years of git existence?
So you didn't just let an AI go nuts with access to the source code of Git so as to produce a derivative work?