Re: A few contributor's questions

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Feb 3, 2014, 16:35 UTC
Message-ID: <52EFC551.8030203@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <8738k44808.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

On 2014-01-31 14:04, David Kastrup wrote:

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> 
> I'm still in the process of finishing the rewrite of the builtin/blame.c
> internals.  Now there are various questions regarding the final patch
> proposals and commit messages.
> 
> Point 1) signing off implies that I'm fine with the licensing of the
> file. builtin/blame.c merely states
> 
> /*
>  * Blame
>  *
>  * Copyright (c) 2006, Junio C Hamano
>  */
> 
> which obviously will not match the authorship of my contributions.
> Since Junio has given blanket permission to reuse his Git contributions
> under other licenses (see
> <URL:https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/development/git.git-authors#L58>)
> that I am not going to license my work under, the first commit in the
> respective series would replace this header with
>

It's a long time since I wrote that document.

Does this mean you're not willing to relicense your contributions with the license used by libgit2? That's what the document is supposed to mean and it's what I asked on the mailing list when requesting permission.

The libgit2 license used as of today is still the license that people agreed to relicense their contributions under. It can be found here: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/development/.HEADER

I'm mostly adding it here for the sake of clarity in case people find this in the future and wonder what all the fuzz was about.

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