Re: [ANNOUNCE] Java Git (aka jgit) has switched to 3-clause BSD
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- Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
- Date
- May 26, 2008, 08:13 UTC
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- <19f34abd0805260113w1341a26bg140d1dbb7438bf46@mail.gmail.com>
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- <20080526044640.GB30245@spearce.org>
Hi,
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> As of 53a2cc3 the jgit library (a 100% pure Java implementation > of git) is now licensed under a 3-clause (new-style) BSD license. > The change was done with a Perl script to rewrite all source code > headers within the org.spearce.jgit package. Copyright information > was updated based upon the output of git-blame.
I previously read about this transition from GPL to BSD.
IANAL, but isn't the current version a derivative of the older version, meaning that you need to take all authors into account when doing this switch, and not just the authors of the _current_ code?
(Or did you get a consent from all previous authors as well as current authors?)
Vegard
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