From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vegard Nossum" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Java Git (aka jgit) has switched to 3-clause BSD Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 10:13:45 +0200 Message-ID: <19f34abd0805260113w1341a26bg140d1dbb7438bf46@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080526044640.GB30245@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Robin Rosenberg" , "Dave Watson" , "Marek Zawirski" , git@vger.kernel.org, laforge@gnumonks.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 26 10:14:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K0Xr7-0005hE-Rs for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 10:14:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753563AbYEZINr (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 04:13:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753463AbYEZINr (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 04:13:47 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.233]:25495 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752710AbYEZINq (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 04:13:46 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l9so2231196rvb.1 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 01:13:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=z1IQFJ0fdkt1d4szglTu2/cVLBWpnJ1Jl4pjqbXVyn8=; b=q4lWeyc7+PHPd8ryE+jE1kURJV3OeR9SF9P8j+IeMuxdHOqVwPZTqArwt0nbNBaCPNQO4PpzwsKFQbAgPv8H4xVwhvrtbhpZ5WLH+7CSxMvIxV1hu0KYaHGXbme5r9n1VYQOY2wy8ZK0CZIWvF8NjdtvgLJPODCsn3RddKtdTB8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=myJLNKLq5Pwbt+5Z3O1MXhVL/nmKly3uHalXUC1fdEn25xU++VfT/3euFxZuU3VXqH5YyMi5cBe9DmzfSgJomz4hSkwvwJyaHP+fUobXZI9IkLNlOtpYqUIHknedhSMzlIYowyx5idGucMpDIqPsMd1w+uPH/kYCkAIfpMysyug= Received: by 10.141.128.19 with SMTP id f19mr1065628rvn.45.1211789625586; Mon, 26 May 2008 01:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.145.9 with HTTP; Mon, 26 May 2008 01:13:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080526044640.GB30245@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Shawn O. Pearce 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