Re: Licensing and the library version of git

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

In message [ref] you wrote:

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... and assuming it is a clean-room  implementation  which  does  not
borrow from the GPL code.

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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.

Gulp. What have  you  been  smoking  lately?

Nothing. I am a non-smoker. Maybe that is my problem?

Your understanding of copyright (and of the GPL) is fundamentally 
broken.

You can read an article. And you can publish the contents in your own 
words (you do not violate copyright by that). That is a fact.

And I do not buy into your "(and of the GPL)" thing. Either I get the 
copyright, which the GPL is based on, or I don't get the copyright (but 
still get that the GPL is based on it).

Ciao,
Dscho