Re: [PATCH 0/2] Two janitorial patches for builtin/blame.c

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2014, 20:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa9epulwq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140121174448.GG18964@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

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> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> So my understanding is that when we are talking about _significant_
>> additions to builtin/blame.c (the current patches don't qualify as such
>> really) that
>>
>> a) builtin/blame.c is licensed under GPLv2
>> b) significant contributions to it will not be relicensed under
>> different licenses without the respective contributors' explicit
>> consent.
>
> Yep, that's how it works.
>
> [...]
>> The combination of the SubmittingPatches text with the file notices in
>> builtin/blame.c is not really painting a full picture of the situation.
>
> Any idea how this could be made more clear?  E.g., maybe we should
> bite the bullet and add a line to all source files that don't already
> state a license:
>
> 	/*
> 	 * License: GPLv2.  See COPYING for details.
> 	 */

I vaguely recall that jgit folks at one point wanted to lift this implementation and were interested in seeing it to be dual licensed to BSD but that was a long time ago.

  http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/JGIT-Blame-functionality-for-jgit-td2142726.html