From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Two janitorial patches for builtin/blame.c Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:20:37 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1390157870-29795-1-git-send-email-dak@gnu.org> <87d2jlqp7x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140121165546.GE18964@google.com> <874n4xqlly.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140121174448.GG18964@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Kastrup , git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 21 21:20:47 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W5hoU-0002yw-KZ for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:20:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751873AbaAUUUm (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:20:42 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:54442 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751191AbaAUUUl (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:20:41 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A68F63942; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:20:41 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=tGQH1Rg/BH/YXkGse9w4+cwG2Vo=; b=kcescZ 6Gq5CQlrwm6IUFBjuR6I6U5zcHXiH2q2cZ+zl5RSRXQvL6SKEeER/yWNGP4cXrK+ 1gnwfek3B/f60xQxlXz9Wk+PUwH2B9PZMlS/MbRSQLBvg+sHUkYVVu09Ziq96eY4 Z7cXUFcvffhR/sJGLv5dhOac3B75r3Eqttqus= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=KMQvKV30SRZoCHVRN/BVsmDoFkrecLA5 k9p4qdmlCCz8M/TmdaSj0FSCBXkZfKtyoZKkFvDMNDiAsaBjxwzU3cyu4Ao1vFTK CpNq/hZrXhCwsl4iNxEMjnbIREzUV+eMygbn55Nl6GTW/wcgmuL/d7X0klGnX9g5 zSxIleOm/t8= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2381C63941; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:20:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1DE6E6393D; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:20:39 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20140121174448.GG18964@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:44:48 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 7EFDBAD2-82D9-11E3-BB69-1B26802839F8-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > >> So my understanding is that when we are talking about _significant_ >> additions to builtin/blame.c (the current patches don't qualify as such >> really) that >> >> a) builtin/blame.c is licensed under GPLv2 >> b) significant contributions to it will not be relicensed under >> different licenses without the respective contributors' explicit >> consent. > > Yep, that's how it works. > > [...] >> The combination of the SubmittingPatches text with the file notices in >> builtin/blame.c is not really painting a full picture of the situation. > > Any idea how this could be made more clear? E.g., maybe we should > bite the bullet and add a line to all source files that don't already > state a license: > > /* > * License: GPLv2. See COPYING for details. > */ I vaguely recall that jgit folks at one point wanted to lift this implementation and were interested in seeing it to be dual licensed to BSD but that was a long time ago. http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/JGIT-Blame-functionality-for-jgit-td2142726.html