From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Java Git (aka jgit) library switching license to BSD/EPL Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:20:49 +0200 Message-ID: <200805090920.50718.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> References: <20080509021158.GA29038@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds , Nicolas Pitre , Johannes Schindelin , Daniel Barkalow , Dave Watson , Philippe Ombredanne , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 09 09:46:42 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 1JuNJG-0003Wz-0K for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 09:46:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751761AbYEIHpc (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2008 03:45:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750972AbYEIHpc (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2008 03:45:32 -0400 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:4723 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750873AbYEIHpb (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2008 03:45:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1440 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 03:45:31 EDT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F46147BE78; Fri, 9 May 2008 09:21:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino.dewire.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WPeEr89tXept; Fri, 9 May 2008 09:21:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.9.0.3] (unknown [10.9.0.3]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8D08027E1; Fri, 9 May 2008 09:21:27 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <20080509021158.GA29038@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: fredagen den 9 maj 2008 04.11.58 skrev Shawn O. Pearce: > The Java Git library (also known as "jgit"[*1*]) is a 100% pure Java > implementation of a data access library for the Git on-disk data > structures, as well as a re-implementation of some commonly used > application functions such as history graph traversal/visualization > and network transport (fetch). > > Since its inception on March 6, 2006 jgit has been under the > GPLv2 license. To make the library available to a wider audience > (including but not limited to the Eclipse Git plugin, numerous > Apache projects such as Ant/Maven, the Netbeans IDE, etc.) we are > switching to a dual license between a 3-clause BSD (the EDL[*2*]) > and the EPL[*3*]. I confirm this is fine with me. -- robin