Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh: Add explicit license detail, with change from GPLv2 to GPLv2+.

[Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>]

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Carl Worth wrote:
> This file has had no explicit license information noted in it, but
> has clearly been created and modified according to the terms of GPLv2
> as with the rest of the git code base.
> 
> The purpose of relicensing is to allow other GPLv3+ projects (in
> particular, the notmuch project: http://notmuchmail.org) to use this
> same test-suite structure (and to contribute changes back as well).

Hi Carl,

here is my report of git's test-lib relicensing. The following is the
last list sent to me by Junio. I guess you have this information
somewhere in your mailbox as well.

    Acked-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com>
    Acked-by: Emil Sit <sit@emilsit.net>
    Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
    Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
    Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
    Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
    Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
    Acked-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
    Acked-by: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
    Acked-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
    Acked-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
    Acked-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
    Acked-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
    Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
    Acked-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
    Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
    Acked-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
    Acked-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
    Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
    Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>

According to https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Test-lib_reclicensing
we can add there the following lines:

    Acked-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
    Acked-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <frekui@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
    Acked-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
    Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
    Acked-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
    Acked-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
    Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>

There are three contributors who didn't respond to me. The contributions
of two of them are clearly not copyrightable (Stephan Beyer and Bert
Wesarg - see the links to commits in the wiki). The last contributor is
Bryan Donlan who fix a few quoting problems which are quite simple but I
do not have any clue whether this is copyrightable or not
(see gitk --author='Bryan Donlan' t/test-lib.sh).

Junio was talking about only three missing Acks so I guess he already
did some filtering based on copyrightability. Do you know which three
Acks were missing according to Junio and whether these are in my list?

Thanks
Michal

> 
> The request for relicensing was presented to the git community in:
> 
> 	Message-ID: <871vgmki4f.fsf@steelpick.localdomain>
> 
> and explicitly agreed to by Junio C Hamano, Sverre Rabbelier, Johannes
> Schindelin, Pierre Habouzit, and Johannes Sixt.
> 
>  t/test-lib.sh |   12 ++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
> index afd3053..004470f 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
> @@ -2,6 +2,18 @@
>  #
>  # Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano
>  #
> +# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> +# the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
> +# (at your option) any later version.
> +#
> +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> +# GNU General Public License for more details.
> +#
> +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> +# along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .
>  
>  # if --tee was passed, write the output not only to the terminal, but
>  # additionally to the file test-results/$BASENAME.out, too.
> -- 
> 1.6.5.7
> 
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