Meld's Bazaar support

[John Arbash Meinel]

Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> 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?

That isn't legal.

What is legal is redistributing BSD-2c code as GPL, and then bundling
*that* with GPL code.

GPL doesn't say it is allowed to be called by BSD-2c. BSD-2c says it can
be upgraded into GPL and rereleased without having to go back to the
original authors.

John
=:->


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