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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Java Git (aka jgit) library switching license to BSD/EPL
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 12:26:39 -0400 (EDT)
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>,
	Dave Watson <dwatson@mimvista.com>,
	Philippe Ombredanne <philippe@easyeclipse.org>,
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To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
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On Thu, 8 May 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Nico, Linus, Junio, Daniel, Dscho, et.al.:
> 
>   We would appreciate it if you could provide a statement saying
>   you have no current copyright ownership interest in jgit, and that
>   you do not currently own nor invented any patents related to the
>   "Git technology" that this code might need to use to function as
>   a Git implementation.

I do not have any such copyright nor patent claims for the jgit code.

As long as the C version remains the authoritative reference 
implementation for protocol and data format, and any algorithmic 
improvements made to the jgit source can be merged back into the C 
version using the GPL, then I have no issue with the license used by 
jgit either.


Nicolas