Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing

["Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 22:33, Martin Koegler
<mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps git stats can be of assistance here, it can summarize how much
lines a person changed (per file, or in total), that should be a
better metric (at least for code reused from within git.git, ofcourse
GPL-ed code taken from somewhere else is not covered).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier