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RE: [egit-dev] JGit Licensing Update
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Great to hear.
Mik
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: egit-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:egit-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Blewitt
> Sent: September-16-09 5:58 PM
> To: EGit developer discussion
> Subject: Re: [egit-dev] JGit Licensing Update
>
> This is great news! Congratulations to all who helped drive this
> forwards and the move of JGit to the Eclipse Foundation as well.
>
> Alex
>
> On 16 Sep 2009, at 22:55, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
> > Today at the September board of directors meeting the board approved
> > JGit to be hosted at eclipse.org, licensed solely under the EDL.
> > This was the decision we were waiting on before fully moving the
> > code base to eclipse.org, and I'm quite excited by the outcome.
> >
> > The vote was a unanimous decision, but in particular a number of
> > folks helped to present the argument explaining why this special
> > exemption from the EPL was in the best interests of the foundation.
> > I would like to thank the elected committer representatives (Chris
> > Aniszczyk, Boris Bokowski, Doug Gaff, Ed Merks), Mike Milinkovich
> > and Janet Campbell of the Eclipse Foundation, and Matthias Sohn of
> > SAP AG for the valuable discussion and feedback they offered while
> > preparing for the vote, as well as the numerous private conversations
> > they held with other board members prior to the vote.
> >
> > At this point we need to kick our JGit CQ to be a real code
> > contribution CQ and not an Orbit import, and we need to slightly
> > restructure the EGit project to have two subcomponents: EGit (the
> > Eclipse plugin/glue) and JGit (the underlying library).
> >
> > --
> > Shawn.
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