[jgit-dev] Moving SSH-related things from JGit to Apache MINA SSHD

[Thomas Wolf <twolf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Apache MINA SSHD has started an effort to produce a new major
3.0.0 release. As part of this development in Apache MINA SSHD
I would like to move some code that I had developed in JGit in
bundle org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache upstream and incorporate it
into Apache MINA SSHD.

This would involve a re-licensing of moved code from EDL-1.0
(the JGit license) to APL-2.0 (Apache Public License).

In a first step, I'd like to move all the client-side proxy code
upstream. Code to be moved would be

* package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.transport.sshd.proxy (all)
* package org.eclipse.jgit.internal.transport.sshd.auth (all)
* class org.eclipse.jgit.internal.transport.sshd.GssApiMechanisms

all in bundle org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache.

I believe I'm the sole author of 99% of that code, so I don't
think re-licensing would be an issue. The remaining 1% is,
as far as I see, a few very minor clean-ups plus one bug fix
(commit 47ecb0096) that would _not_ be taken over because that
whole time-out thing would be done differently anyway.

I hope moving code upstream and re-licensing as APL-2.0 is fine
with you! If not, please speak up NOW.

Cheers,

  Thomas