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Re: NYU Open Source Programming Class Releases JavaGit API 0.1.0 Alpha

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Aug 5, 2008, 01:46 UTC
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<20080805014647.GA383@spearce.org>
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Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> wrote:
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> On 5 aug 2008, at 03:20, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> Someone recently ported git-blame into JGit, and it looks like they
>> did a good job, but it was a straight C->Java port.  Since JGit
>> is licensed under the BSD and builtin-blame.c is under the GPL we
>> couldn't accept it as-is.  That side project produced a lot more
>> results than anything else of late, but the GPL virual clause kicked
>> in and prevented direct inclusion.
>
> Have you asked the author of git-blame (Junio?) if he'd be willing to
> relicence it to the JGit licences?

We started talking about it off-list actually. I haven't heard back from Junio yet but I think he was hinting that he is open to the idea.

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 8 of 8 in “NYU Open Source Programming Class Releases JavaGit API 0.1.0 Alpha”
  1. James LinderAug 4, 2008
  2. Shawn O. PearceAug 4, 2008
  3. Johannes SchindelinAug 4, 2008
  4. A Large Angry SCMAug 5, 2008
  5. Petr BaudisAug 5, 2008
  6. Shawn O. PearceAug 5, 2008
  7. Pieter de BieAug 5, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceAug 5, 2008

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