Meld's Bazaar support

[Jan Claeys]

Op do, 24-08-2006 te 10:44 +1000, schreef Martin Pool:
> On 23 Aug 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> 
> > > So I'm asking again: What is our intent with bzrlib?  Do we intend for
> > > it to be used by BSD and proprietary clients?
> > 
> > I wonder that as well. I've thought about whether LGPL would make sense,
> > but I don't know if we want to allow a proprietary front end.
> 
> It's a difficult call.  We would like it to be used in Meld and similar
> open source projects; it's annoying when licencing technicalities cause
> such problems.  (One reason we want a single copyright holder is so that
> we are able to make licence fixes for such situations.)  On the other
> hand we do want a copyleft licence. 
> 
> For things like proprietary IDEs or diff tools I'd say to have a good
> machine-friendly command line interface.  Hopefully Meld can have closer
> integration. 

If you want to keep the GPL, you can add exceptions to it to permit
certain uses (even some GNU programs do this).


-- 
Jan Claeys