Re: Licensing and the library version of git

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

In message [ref] you wrote:

quoted

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