Re: Implementing reftable in Git

From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me>
Date: May 9, 2018, 18:05 UTC
Message-ID: <e6f23463b1bd577d1c70848b11a0fd217b78f8a8.camel@dwim.me>
In-Reply-To: <20180509175445.GK10348@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 10:54 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 09:48 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > > If you would like the patches at https://git.eclipse.org/r/q/topi
> > > c:reftable
> > > relicensed for Git's use so that you don't need to include that
> > > license header, let me know.  Separate from any legal concerns,
> > > if
> > > you're doing a straight port, a one-line comment crediting the
> > > JGit
> > > project would still be appreciated, of course.
> 
> [...]
> > Would you expect that this port would keep the Eclipse Distribution
> > License or would it get relicensed to GPLv2?
> 
> I think you're way overcomplicating things.
> 
> The patches are copyright Google.  We can handle issues as they come.

Fair enough. I just wanted to avoid coming back to this in a few months and realising we can't use it at all.

Cheers,
   cmn