From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
James Linder <james.h.linder@gmail.com>,
Git Mailinglist <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: NYU Open Source Programming Class Releases JavaGit API 0.1.0 Alpha
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:46:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080805014647.GA383@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59095A70-09C1-4898-976F-18C0C157B7EF@ai.rug.nl>
Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> wrote:
> On 5 aug 2008, at 03:20, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> Someone recently ported git-blame into JGit, and it looks like they
>> did a good job, but it was a straight C->Java port. Since JGit
>> is licensed under the BSD and builtin-blame.c is under the GPL we
>> couldn't accept it as-is. That side project produced a lot more
>> results than anything else of late, but the GPL virual clause kicked
>> in and prevented direct inclusion.
>
> Have you asked the author of git-blame (Junio?) if he'd be willing to
> relicence it to the JGit licences?
We started talking about it off-list actually. I haven't heard
back from Junio yet but I think he was hinting that he is open to
the idea.
--
Shawn.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 1:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 16:48 NYU Open Source Programming Class Releases JavaGit API 0.1.0 Alpha James Linder
2008-08-04 17:54 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-04 23:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-05 0:03 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-08-05 1:10 ` Petr Baudis
2008-08-05 1:20 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-05 1:32 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-08-05 1:46 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
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