From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Java Git (aka jgit) has switched to 3-clause BSD Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:08:28 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <20080526044640.GB30245@spearce.org> <19f34abd0805260113w1341a26bg140d1dbb7438bf46@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "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 12:09:23 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 1K0Zdo-0004EK-Ij for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 12:09:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753914AbYEZKI0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 06:08:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753890AbYEZKI0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 06:08:26 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36823 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753843AbYEZKIZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 06:08:25 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 May 2008 10:08:23 -0000 Received: from R4980.r.pppool.de (EHLO racer.local) [89.54.73.128] by mail.gmx.net (mp036) with SMTP; 26 May 2008 12:08:23 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+FzmIGIhiFnlimKvTckF/+cQsbtma0bP9mLzjvOZ eq36fHcVOR2eq1 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0805260113w1341a26bg140d1dbb7438bf46@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, 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. 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. Ciao, Dscho