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Re: Licensing and the library version of git

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 27, 2006, 20:39 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0607272239050.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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<20060727195614.7EDAE353B04@atlas.denx.de>
Hi,
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
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> In message <9e4733910607270554p5622ee20ida8c264cf3122500@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > I see that someone is already writing a pure Java version which will
> > work around the GPL problem assuming the Java version is released
> > under a compatible license.
> 
> ... and assuming it is a clean-room  implementation  which  does  not
> borrow from the GPL code.
>From a standpoint of copyright (which the GPL relies on), this is not

possible: you cannot include C code into Java. And if it is _translated_ from C into Java, it is not copyrighted any more.

Ciao, Dscho

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  33. Wolfgang DenkJul 27, 2006
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