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Hi, I am maintaining a port of rsync (https://github.com/perlundq/yajsync) which is GPL:ed of course. The main purpose of the project is to provide a Java API library for the rsync protocol. It would therefore be really nice to be able to use LGPL as the license. But in order to do so I would first have to get a list of all the individual contributors to rsync and then...

Am 07.01.2016 um 23:26 schrieb Per Lundqvist: > Hi, > > I am maintaining a port of rsync (https://github.com/perlundq/yajsync) > which is GPL:ed of course. The main purpose of the project is to > provide a Java API library for the rsync protocol. It would > therefore be really nice to be able to use LGPL as the license. > > But in order to do so I would first have to get a list of all the > individual co...

...contributed owns its code and has to approve even if they aren't listed on the copyright notice (unless they have explicitly given it away). Otherwise you can never be fully protected against any future claims - although it's rather unlikely for LGPL (but I wouldn't chance). > - the yajsync implementation refers to a subset of rsync: does the > derivative work comprise only the according parts of the rsync source code? Yes I believe it does, but the lines are murky. The code has evolved quite a bit since the beginning so it might be tricky to really sort this out. > - supposed...

...from people who contributed code, but their full names with email addresses have been mentioned neither in a copyright header nor in the AUTHORS and CONTRIBUTORS files? It is a big sin to violate a GPL for others, but to violate a copyright for the project itself is not a big deal? > > - the yajsync implementation refers to a subset of rsync: does the > > derivative work comprise only the according parts of the rsync source code? > > Yes I believe it does, but the lines are murky. The code has evolved > quite a bit since the beginning so it might be tricky to really sort > t...

Hi Martin, 2016-01-23 18:41 GMT+01:00 Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net>: > It seems like yajsync is a reimplementation of rsync's protocol by looking > at the GPL'd C rsync source, but it doesn't actually include any code from > rsync. Is that right? Yes correct, it is a complete rewrite in Java. Most of it is completely different, only some small parts of the actual code is...