Re: NYU Open Source Programming Class Releases JavaGit API 0.1.0 Alpha

Pieter de Bie [off-list ref] wrote:

On 5 aug 2008, at 03:20, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

quoted

Someone recently ported git-blame into JGit, and it looks like they
did a good job, but it was a straight C->Java port.  Since JGit
is licensed under the BSD and builtin-blame.c is under the GPL we
couldn't accept it as-is.  That side project produced a lot more
results than anything else of late, but the GPL virual clause kicked
in and prevented direct inclusion.

Have you asked the author of git-blame (Junio?) if he'd be willing to
relicence it to the JGit licences?

We started talking about it off-list actually.  I haven't heard
back from Junio yet but I think he was hinting that he is open to
the idea.

-- 
Shawn.