From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:46:47 GMT Subject: Re: NYU Open Source Programming Class Releases JavaGit API 0.1.0 Alpha Message-ID: <20080805014647.GA383@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <59095A70-09C1-4898-976F-18C0C157B7EF@ai.rug.nl> Pieter de Bie wrote: > 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.