Re: [egit-dev] any update on JGit @ Eclipse ?

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wasn't the suggested solution to have JGit under the EDL?

Its already under the EDL.

s/Git Development Community/Eclipse Foundation/ in the current
copyright notice, and its the EDL.

The problem is the Eclipse Foundation has never done *pure* EDL
before.  All current projects not under the EPL are under a dual
EDL/EPL or APLv2/EPL (only Jetty uses this) license.

The current legal opinion is that JGit can't be relicensed under a
dual EDL/EPL license as not all copyright holders consent to having
the code relicensed under EPL.  Replacing that code is non-trivial,
its a very large chunk of JGit; perhaps more than 40%.

> On 18 Jun 2009, at 00:59, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I haven't yet refactored JGit to org.eclipse.jgit namespace.
>> I'm waiting to hear about the licensing issue.  If the BSD is not
>> acceptable for hosting at Eclipse.org then we might just keep it
>> under org.spearce.jgit, as that is what all current applications
>> import.

-- 
Shawn.