From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:39:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Licensing and the library version of git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607272239050.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060727195614.7EDAE353B04@atlas.denx.de>

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> 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