From: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:32:06 GMT
Subject: Re: NYU Open Source Programming Class Releases JavaGit API 0.1.0 Alpha
Message-ID: <59095A70-09C1-4898-976F-18C0C157B7EF@ai.rug.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20080805012007.GB32543@spearce.org>


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?

- Pieter