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Code review comment for lp:~naesten/bzr-fastimport/import-tars

import-tars
Merge into fastimport.dev

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Samuel Bronson (naesten) wrote on 2009-08-13:

> I'm happy to include this but I think we need to explicitly check the
> licensing of the original code to confirm it's OK for us to redistribute it.
>
> We probably need something like exporters/import-tars.README (and exporters
> /import-tars.LICENSE?) acknowledging the original author and your tweaks to
> it. Perhaps explicitly mention yourself as the maintainer of the script as
> well, if that's the case.

Well, the most specific license info for that file is in git's top-level COPYING, as far as I can tell, which says "GPL v2 only -- not v2.1, not v3, *v2*" (paraphrased).

The contributers shown by

naesten@hydrogen:~/hacking/git% ../tig/tig v1.6.3.3 -- contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl

(the ../tig/ is because I added something to tig to make the dates narrower) are:

2009-06-17 14:49 Johannes Schindelin + import-tars: support symlinks
2009-03-20 10:57 Giuseppe Bilotta * import-tars: separate author from commit~
2007-05-16 12:43 Junio C Hamano M Merge branch 'maint'
2007-05-16 17:22 Johannes Schindelin │`* import-tars: Use the "Link indicator" ~
2007-05-10 14:48 Junio C Hamano M │ Merge branch 'maint'
2007-05-07 21:13 Shawn O. Pearce │`* Properly handle '0' filenames in impor~
2007-05-02 13:24 Shawn O. Pearce M │ Merge branch 'gfi-maint' into gfi-mast~
2007-05-01 23:42 Johannes Schindelin │`* Teach import-tars about GNU tar's @Lon~
2007-04-29 01:52 Junio C Hamano M │ Merge branch 'maint'
2007-04-29 00:31 Junio C Hamano │`* Fix import-tars fix.
2007-04-29 01:59 Johannes Schindelin │ * import-tars: be nice to wrong director~
2007-04-24 13:51 Uwe Kleine-König * │ fix importing of subversion tars
2007-02-14 17:03 Michael Loeffler *' Use gunzip -c over gzcat in import-tars~
2007-02-12 15:17 Michael Loeffler * import-tars: brown paper bag fix for fil~
2007-02-08 15:26 Shawn O. Pearce * tar archive frontend for fast-import.

And I'd be happy to try and fix any bugs people may find in the script.

Oh, btw, I'm going to my grandpa's house for a week (... say, ten minutes ago?), leaving my computer behind, so I probably won't be able to do much except maybe talk until I'm back.

> I'm happy to include this but I think we need to explicitly check the
> licensing of the original code to confirm it's OK for us to redistribute it.
> 
> We probably need something like exporters/import-tars.README (and exporters
> /import-tars.LICENSE?) acknowledging the original author and your tweaks to
> it. Perhaps explicitly mention yourself as the maintainer of the script as
> well, if that's the case.

Well, the most specific license info for that file is in git's top-level COPYING, as far as I can tell, which says "GPL v2 only -- not v2.1, not v3, *v2*" (paraphrased).

The contributers shown by

naesten@hydrogen:~/hacking/git% ../tig/tig v1.6.3.3 -- contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl

(the ../tig/ is because I added something to tig to make the dates narrower) are:

2009-06-17 14:49 Johannes Schindelin + import-tars: support symlinks
2009-03-20 10:57 Giuseppe Bilotta    * import-tars: separate author from commit~
2007-05-16 12:43 Junio C Hamano      M Merge branch 'maint'
2007-05-16 17:22 Johannes Schindelin │`* import-tars: Use the "Link indicator" ~
2007-05-10 14:48 Junio C Hamano      M │ Merge branch 'maint'
2007-05-07 21:13 Shawn O. Pearce     │`* Properly handle '0' filenames in impor~
2007-05-02 13:24 Shawn O. Pearce     M │ Merge branch 'gfi-maint' into gfi-mast~
2007-05-01 23:42 Johannes Schindelin │`* Teach import-tars about GNU tar's @Lon~
2007-04-29 01:52 Junio C Hamano      M │ Merge branch 'maint'
2007-04-29 00:31 Junio C Hamano      │`* Fix import-tars fix.
2007-04-29 01:59 Johannes Schindelin │ * import-tars: be nice to wrong director~
2007-04-24 13:51 Uwe Kleine-König    * │ fix importing of subversion tars
2007-02-14 17:03 Michael Loeffler    *' Use gunzip -c over gzcat in import-tars~
2007-02-12 15:17 Michael Loeffler    * import-tars: brown paper bag fix for fil~
2007-02-08 15:26 Shawn O. Pearce     * tar archive frontend for fast-import.

And I'd be happy to try and fix any bugs people may find in the script.

Oh, btw, I'm going to my grandpa's house for a week (... say, ten minutes ago?), leaving my computer behind, so I probably won't be able to do much except maybe talk until I'm back.

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