From: Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US) <jason.j.pyeron.ctr@mail.mil>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:39:29 GMT
Subject: RE: any way to re-release git's block sha1 implementation under a different license?
Message-ID: <871B6C10EBEFE342A772D1159D13208537AFA06D@umechphj.easf.csd.disa.mil>
In-Reply-To: <CAFBatg3AcjOjQqKJrRe_fkva8OD=F=5aS7kczF3e1ePw_KcJng@mail.gmail.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liu Liu
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 2:52 AM
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am reaching out because in my personal project (
> https://github.com/liuliu/ccv
> ), I used the block sha1 implementation (
> https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/block-sha1/sha1.c) in git. It is
> a
> fast, generalized and standalone implementation, however, since it is a
> part of git, it is under GPL license. Is there any possibilities for
> the
> original author/authors to release this particular piece of code under
> BSD
> / MIT or Apache license? Thanks!


Worse comes to worse, use the Mozilla code it was based on. Assumption is that the original code was under the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License

-Jason