From: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 18:12:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Java Git (aka jgit) has switched to 3-clause BSD
Message-ID: <20080526181259.GA17449@foursquare.net>
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0805260422m6d8c414dy746623ed609440eb@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 01:22:25PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> 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