Meld's Bazaar support

[John Arbash Meinel]

Aaron Bentley wrote:

...

>>>  * Ideally, we could use bzrlib directly in meld. John mentioned on IRC
>>> that there were potential licensing issues because meld.vc is
>>> BSD-licensed. 
>>>
>>> Is there any chance an exception can be made for the license to
>>> meld.vc.bzr ? Which solution would you prefer?
> 
> Stephen definitely prefers the vc implementations to be BSD-licensed,
> but there might be some wiggle room.
> 
> Aaron

I don't think any of us care if meld/vc/bzr.py is BSD licensed. It is
just the problem that 'import bzrlib' imports GPL'd code.

Which has a weird problem that 'meld' itself is a GPL project and can
use BSD derived code (hence why it can import meld/vc/__init__.py) but
the licensing is preventing us from importing GPL code through that BSD
layer.

It seems like something should be reasonable.

Now, it is possible that Stephen thinks the 'vc' layer is meant to be
spun off as its own project, and thus needs to be a BSD layer. And thus
everything underneath it needs to be BSD as well.

stupid licensing stuff....

Hopefully Aaron can convince Stephen about the issues.

John
=:->

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