From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sverre Rabbelier" Subject: Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:46:31 +0100 Message-ID: References: <491DE6CC.6060201@op5.se> <20081114213352.GA12134@auto.tuwien.ac.at> Reply-To: sverre@rabbelier.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Andreas Ericsson" , "Git Mailing List" To: "Martin Koegler" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 14 22:47:49 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 1L16W4-0006Qg-EG for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:47:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751736AbYKNVqd (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:46:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751770AbYKNVqd (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:46:33 -0500 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.31]:8708 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751734AbYKNVqd (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:46:33 -0500 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so717935ywe.1 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:46:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=dHmm87wiNbhZ1dx7mIR8nUrJLwgdIvP6uUmnNc3rcQk=; b=FSmk0Jwe9g8CxcIoPNQOTZSBsufuZMcvP5hW9zWIWbuoWLQ0vfnnK5XpH6dXZyUkdj vfbqJeMw9SCceTvxiJII8Wp+iXlx5ikDNDZmo9m0y96lUyU95dtgJ9A2EeKHr2Q0+uXf Nh4Hpj+NUALG3EEZNWZvPeAnFannH9lt8kcnY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:references; b=s0sttwJf6gfy3JW2ormBLPrGnS7H1RtUs99HersECz+kj4jxwSxTCF4miAMufWcOgb 1E4WQMeryP1rMOKzoyLNPpQFFhymPWrN+VvInfWTufrBJgpUSKR8QiH3icu/RAjCRHpC 5IgdiIi443G4atFDJGIyHNzYGd39u5GN6vNk8= Received: by 10.151.15.9 with SMTP id s9mr2614701ybi.70.1226699191650; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:46:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.149.14 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:46:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20081114213352.GA12134@auto.tuwien.ac.at> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 22:33, Martin Koegler 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