{"thread":{"id":"8318","subject":"[PATCH] update diff-delta.c copyright","startedAt":"2007-05-26T02:16:27Z","lastAt":"2007-05-26T02:16:27Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Nicolas Pitre"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"43318","messageId":"alpine.LFD.0.99.0705252202160.3366@xanadu.home","threadId":"8318","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] update diff-delta.c copyright","fromName":"Nicolas Pitre","fromEmail":"nico@cam.org","sentAt":"2007-05-26T02:16:27Z","receivedAt":"2007-05-26T02:16:27Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"nico@fluxnic.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/702790?v=4"},"body":"There is actually nothing left from the original LibXDiff code I used \nover 2 years ago, and even the GIT implementation has diverged quite a \nbit from LibXDiff's at this point.  Let's update the copyright notice\nto better reflect that fact.\n\nSigned-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>\n---\n\ndiff --git a/diff-delta.c b/diff-delta.c\nindex 09e6bcd..72b53d8 100644\n--- a/diff-delta.c\n+++ b/diff-delta.c\n@@ -1,21 +1,14 @@\n /*\n  * diff-delta.c: generate a delta between two buffers\n  *\n- *  Many parts of this file have been lifted from LibXDiff version 0.10.\n- *  http://www.xmailserver.org/xdiff-lib.html\n+ * This code was greatly inspired by parts of LibXDiff from Davide Libenzi\n+ * http://www.xmailserver.org/xdiff-lib.html\n  *\n- *  LibXDiff was written by Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>\n- *  Copyright (C) 2003\tDavide Libenzi\n+ * Rewritten for GIT by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, (C) 2005-2007\n  *\n- *  Many mods for GIT usage by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, (C) 2005.\n- *\n- *  This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or\n- *  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public\n- *  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either\n- *  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.\n- *\n- *  Use of this within git automatically means that the LGPL\n- *  licensing gets turned into GPLv2 within this project.\n+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify\n+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as\n+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.\n  */\n \n #include \"git-compat-util.h\"\n"}]}