Meld's Bazaar support

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:48:20AM -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 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.

I think the idea was to allow stuff like BitKeeper to also work.

Wouter van Heyst