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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Two janitorial patches for builtin/blame.c
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:20:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa9epulwq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140121174448.GG18964@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:44:48 -0800")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> So my understanding is that when we are talking about _significant_
>> additions to builtin/blame.c (the current patches don't qualify as such
>> really) that
>>
>> a) builtin/blame.c is licensed under GPLv2
>> b) significant contributions to it will not be relicensed under
>> different licenses without the respective contributors' explicit
>> consent.
>
> Yep, that's how it works.
>
> [...]
>> The combination of the SubmittingPatches text with the file notices in
>> builtin/blame.c is not really painting a full picture of the situation.
>
> Any idea how this could be made more clear?  E.g., maybe we should
> bite the bullet and add a line to all source files that don't already
> state a license:
>
> 	/*
> 	 * License: GPLv2.  See COPYING for details.
> 	 */

I vaguely recall that jgit folks at one point wanted to lift this
implementation and were interested in seeing it to be dual licensed
to BSD but that was a long time ago.

  http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/JGIT-Blame-functionality-for-jgit-td2142726.html

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-21 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-19 18:57 [PATCH 0/2] Two janitorial patches for builtin/blame.c David Kastrup
2014-01-19 18:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] builtin/blame.c: struct blame_entry does not need a prev link David Kastrup
2014-01-21 21:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-21 23:02     ` David Kastrup
2014-01-19 18:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] Eliminate same_suspect function in builtin/blame.c David Kastrup
2014-01-21 16:22 ` [PATCH 0/2] Two janitorial patches for builtin/blame.c David Kastrup
2014-01-21 16:55   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-01-21 17:40     ` David Kastrup
2014-01-21 17:44       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-01-21 17:58         ` David Kastrup
2014-01-21 19:15           ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-01-21 19:56             ` David Kastrup
2014-01-21 20:01               ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-01-21 21:30                 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-21 20:20         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-01-21 22:56           ` David Kastrup
2014-01-21 19:53       ` Jonathan Nieder

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