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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Java Git (aka jgit) has switched to 3-clause BSD

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CFChris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
Date
May 26, 2008, 18:12 UTC
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 01:22:25PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
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> It does concern me, because I enjoy git and free software in general.
> I am not trolling or trying to stop the change of license in any way,
> but simply give a heads up to what I believe might potentially be a
> legal issue. Maybe there are in fact no other authors that have
> participated, but in that case I think it is a fact worthy of explicit
> mention.

I share your concerns about licensing and keeping things accurate when it comes to things like changing licenses, so I took a quick look at the bsd branch of the jgit git tree, to see if there were any glaring omissions.

I'm not sure that git-blame is the best way to deal with this kind of task, but in this case, it worked out well. From my analysis of git-log output, the lines of code from contributors who haven't explicitly consented are maybe 10 lines. Looks like a job well done to me.

- Chris
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Message 6 of 18 in “[ANNOUNCE] Java Git (aka jgit) has switched to 3-clause BSD”
  1. Shawn O. PearceMay 26, 2008
  2. Vegard NossumMay 26, 2008
  3. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  4. Vegard NossumMay 26, 2008
  5. Johannes SchindelinMay 26, 2008
  6. Chris FreyMay 26, 2008
  7. Shawn O. PearceMay 26, 2008
  8. Martin LanghoffMay 27, 2008
  9. Roger C. SoaresMay 27, 2008
  10. Shawn O. PearceMay 29, 2008
  11. Roger C. SoaresMay 30, 2008
  12. Jakub NarebskiMay 27, 2008
  13. Florian KöberleMay 27, 2008
  14. Shawn O. PearceMay 28, 2008
  15. Robin RosenbergJun 7, 2008
  16. Shawn O. PearceJun 7, 2008
  17. Robin RosenbergJun 9, 2008
  18. Philippe OmbredanneJun 10, 2008

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