Meld's Bazaar support

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Tue Aug 22 19:49:02 BST 2006


On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:43:29PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Aaron Bentley, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> If he distributes a GPLed module under the BSD license, that's a
> violation of copyright.

OK, maybe I'm mistaking something here.  I'm going from:

     > Ideally, we could use bzrlib directly in meld. John mentioned
     > on IRC that there were potential licensing issues because
     > meld.vc is BSD-licensed.

That doesn't require distributing GPL'd code, it just calls into
bzrlib (GPL'd) from meld (2-c BSD'd), which is fine AFAICT.  So, I
don't see the licensing issue.  What am I missing?


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