From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Frey Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Java Git (aka jgit) has switched to 3-clause BSD Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 14:12:59 -0400 Message-ID: <20080526181259.GA17449@foursquare.net> References: <20080526044640.GB30245@spearce.org> <19f34abd0805260113w1341a26bg140d1dbb7438bf46@mail.gmail.com> <19f34abd0805260422m6d8c414dy746623ed609440eb@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Robin Rosenberg , Dave Watson , Marek Zawirski , git@vger.kernel.org, laforge@gnumonks.org To: Vegard Nossum X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 26 20:14:20 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 1K0hD7-0006iJ-Dj for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 20:14:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754649AbYEZSNY (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 14:13:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754605AbYEZSNY (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 14:13:24 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:33537 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753238AbYEZSNX (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 14:13:23 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 216.16.235.2 Received: from localhost (rubicon.netdirect.ca [216.16.235.2]) by rubicon.netdirect.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4QICx4l003663; Mon, 26 May 2008 14:12:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0805260422m6d8c414dy746623ed609440eb@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.723, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, TW_JG 0.08) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: X-Spam-Status: No Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 01:22:25PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > 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. I share your concerns about licensing and keeping things accurate when it comes to things like changing licenses, so I took a quick look at the bsd branch of the jgit git tree, to see if there were any glaring omissions. I'm not sure that git-blame is the best way to deal with this kind of task, but in this case, it worked out well. From my analysis of git-log output, the lines of code from contributors who haven't explicitly consented are maybe 10 lines. Looks like a job well done to me. - Chris