Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing

[mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler)]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:59:56PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> I've put everyone who "owns" more than 500 lines of code
> on the bcc list, figuring your permission is important
> but that you don't want the hundreds (well, one can hope)
> of emails from people saying "ok". The list of major owners
> was generated with "git showners *.c" in a worktree from
> the next branch of git.git.

I don't think, that your way for relicensing is bullet proof:

I consider many of my GIT patches as derived work from other parts of
GIT, even if git blame is stating me as author. I can gurantee you,
that I comply with the "Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1" point
b, as its based on code out of git.git. But I can't tell you, from
which files I reused code anymore.

Probably other people did the same.

Your method is ignoring such derived code.

mfg Martin Kögler