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Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-svn - bidirection operations between svn and git

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Feb 16, 2006, 11:57 UTC
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Dear diary, on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:20:01PM CET, I got a letter where Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> said that...

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> Scott James code was motivation to start the project. But if you
> compare the two code lot of changes are done. Infact only thing that
> remain now is how i draw using the cairo which is also modified a bit.
> 
> This is the COPYING file that scott had in bzrk project.
> 
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/bzr/bzrk/COPYING
> 
> But gitview is quiet different from bzrk. I just wanted to add it to
> the code that i started with bzrk code.

IANAL but AFAIK even if the code is quite different by now, if you _started_ with bzrk code the copyright of the original author is still lurking inside your code - it's basically a continuous series of directly derived works.

OTOH, what am I not getting? The bzrk's license seems to be GPLv2, our license seems to be GPLv2, ...

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Message 8 of 15 in “[ANNOUNCE] git-svn - bidirection operations between svn and git”
  1. Eric WongFeb 16, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2006
  3. Aneesh KumarFeb 16, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2006
  5. Aneesh KumarFeb 16, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2006
  7. Aneesh KumarFeb 16, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisFeb 16, 2006
  9. Aneesh KumarFeb 16, 2006
  10. Eric WongFeb 16, 2006
  11. Eduardo Pereira HabkostFeb 16, 2006
  12. Eric WongFeb 16, 2006
  13. git-svn: fix revision order when XML::Simple is not loadedEric Wong, Feb 16, 2006
  14. Eric WongFeb 16, 2006
  15. git-svn: ensure fetch always works chronologically.Eric Wong, Feb 17, 2006

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