From: Aneesh Kumar Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:01:03 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-svn - bidirection operations between svn and git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060216115707.GP31278@pasky.or.cz> On 2/16/06, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:20:01PM CET, I got a letter > where Aneesh Kumar said that... > > Scott James code was motivation to start the project. But if you > > compare the two code lot of changes are done. Infact only thing that > > remain now is how i draw using the cairo which is also modified a bit. > > > > This is the COPYING file that scott had in bzrk project. > > > > http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/bzr/bzrk/COPYING > > > > But gitview is quiet different from bzrk. I just wanted to add it to > > the code that i started with bzrk code. > > IANAL but AFAIK even if the code is quite different by now, if you > _started_ with bzrk code the copyright of the original author is still > lurking inside your code - it's basically a continuous series of > directly derived works. > > OTOH, what am I not getting? The bzrk's license seems to be GPLv2, our > license seems to be GPLv2, ... > > Correct. That way i guess we can add the code the way i sent. In any case i am marking this mail to scott. So if he has anything to add he can let us know -aneesh