Licensing

[Martin Pool]

On 25 Aug 2006, Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum at gentoo.org> wrote:
> I generally hate licensing discussions, but I couldn't find anything the
> list archives on this topic, so here it goes...  Wouldn't LGPL be a
> better fit for Bazaar?  As far as I can tell, the current licensing
> denies the ability to create plugins to use Bazaar in any of the major
> IDE's (Eclipse, NetBeans, VisualStudio).  I suspect for total world
> domination, one would probably want to consider supporting these
> platforms.  Just a thought...

It would be good to provide plugins for all different IDEs.  In practice
running a subprocess may well be the technically easiest solution.

But the implications of the LGPL on a Python program seems very unclear
to me.  Python programs are not really "linked to create an executable",
do not have header files or object code, and don't have a clearly
defined public interface.


-- 
Martin