From: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: "Robin Rosenberg" <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>,
"Dave Watson" <dwatson@mimvista.com>,
"Marek Zawirski" <marek.zawirski@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, laforge@gnumonks.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Java Git (aka jgit) has switched to 3-clause BSD
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 10:13:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19f34abd0805260113w1341a26bg140d1dbb7438bf46@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080526044640.GB30245@spearce.org>
Hi,
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> As of 53a2cc3 the jgit library (a 100% pure Java implementation
> of git) is now licensed under a 3-clause (new-style) BSD license.
> The change was done with a Perl script to rewrite all source code
> headers within the org.spearce.jgit package. Copyright information
> was updated based upon the output of git-blame.
I previously read about this transition from GPL to BSD.
IANAL, but isn't the current version a derivative of the older
version, meaning that you need to take all authors into account when
doing this switch, and not just the authors of the _current_ code?
(Or did you get a consent from all previous authors as well as current authors?)
Vegard
--
"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-26 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-26 4:46 [ANNOUNCE] Java Git (aka jgit) has switched to 3-clause BSD Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-26 8:13 ` Vegard Nossum [this message]
2008-05-26 10:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-26 11:22 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-26 11:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-26 18:12 ` Chris Frey
2008-05-26 23:44 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-27 0:13 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-05-27 22:27 ` Roger C. Soares
2008-05-29 4:19 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-30 12:07 ` Roger C. Soares
2008-05-27 9:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-05-27 12:11 ` Florian Köberle
2008-05-28 23:26 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-07 11:03 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-06-07 16:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-09 19:39 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-06-10 2:15 ` Philippe Ombredanne
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