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 13:22:25 +0200 Message-ID: <19f34abd0805260422m6d8c414dy746623ed609440eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080526044640.GB30245@spearce.org> <19f34abd0805260113w1341a26bg140d1dbb7438bf46@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , "Robin Rosenberg" , "Dave Watson" , "Marek Zawirski" , git@vger.kernel.org, laforge@gnumonks.org To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 26 13:23:20 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 1K0anP-0000fO-Ge for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 13:23:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754069AbYEZLW1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 07:22:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754062AbYEZLW1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 07:22:27 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.226]:16010 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753377AbYEZLW0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 07:22:26 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l9so2295526rvb.1 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 04:22:26 -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=G1x2nPeXFD545bEv3LmfGmJdUjC0Y9w2nnhz9UdKYOk=; b=fyG7JrawPN5oZUHsG2JC4R3vICWmKFuCdMmk/f0C5kkKhxyjQAClPZdm0pun+W9Sq3klvG0EJdYz5umt5babcc/cdJ7rx5kd/vpqmYUZg+K2RAEnT2aUFFlHrGApu3gX4cpBNsI+nqChyQTDSZgDTr96i9TnAdxOyvjCkCxhhFI= 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=fqdb09subg4eqtDQMEpU1tCzWY8qi8eb/+ZftfZkNFgDKi4WeBr/vg4Yy2AMe51CKb1+5Z1DOBhfGdtspCOhT3Q2bd/EQj8QpPUm4aO4aSahVbhOKi9t84eUnDxyRjBjcMWeKJ+ozsFxG5X2YY68wZ3EyKv+YrZLeP8L42HHhgc= Received: by 10.141.168.7 with SMTP id v7mr1022802rvo.224.1211800945982; Mon, 26 May 2008 04:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.145.9 with HTTP; Mon, 26 May 2008 04:22:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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 12:08 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Mon, 26 May 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote: > >> 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?) > > He did. That is what is written in the thread that Shawn explicitely > stated in the part that you did _not_ quote. Hm, yes, that is the thread I read before. What Shawn writes there is this: "As of the bleeding edge (40c5c6cb11b8cc6caf3ea6a681caf0a6b8d66f36 [*4*]) the ownership of all currently surviving lines of code is broken down as follows:" This seems to suggest that only authors of the "bleeding edge" are considered, while my point was that the "bleeding edge" may be a derivative of earlier versions which had other authors as well. I can't find anywhere explicitly mentioned in the thread that _all_ authors have been asked about the change of license. > I also have to wonder why you chose a total technical non-issue, that does > not really concern you (because you are noone of said authors), for your > first post (at least that I am aware of) to this list. It does concern me, because I enjoy git and free software in general. I am not trolling or trying to stop the change of license in any way, but simply give a heads up to what I believe might potentially be a legal issue. Maybe there are in fact no other authors that have participated, but in that case I think it is a fact worthy of explicit mention. This was also not my first post to this list; you have even replied to one of my posts yourself once upon a time :-) 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