Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-svn - bidirection operations between svn and git

[Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>]

On 2/16/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> Dear diary, on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:20:01PM CET, I got a letter
> where Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> said that...
> > Scott James code was motivation to start the project. But if you
> > compare the two code lot of changes are done. Infact only thing that
> > remain now is how i draw using the cairo which is also modified a bit.
> >
> > This is the COPYING file that scott had in bzrk project.
> >
> > http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/bzr/bzrk/COPYING
> >
> > But gitview is quiet different from bzrk. I just wanted to add it to
> > the code that i started with bzrk code.
>
> IANAL but AFAIK even if the code is quite different by now, if you
> _started_ with bzrk code the copyright of the original author is still
> lurking inside your code - it's basically a continuous series of
> directly derived works.
>
> OTOH, what am I not getting? The bzrk's license seems to be GPLv2, our
> license seems to be GPLv2, ...
>
>

Correct. That way i guess we can add the code the way i sent. In any
case i am marking this mail to scott. So if  he has anything to add he
can let us know

-aneesh