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

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

David Kastrup wrote:

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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.

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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