[Fwd: Re: Inclusion of svn-fast-export in bzr-fastimport?]

[Ian Clatworthy]

FYI.
Ian C.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Inclusion of svn-fast-export in bzr-fastimport?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:11:13 -0700
From: Chris Lee <clee at kde.org>
To: Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net>
References: <47D951A0.3090402 at internode.on.net>

Hi Ian,

You're more than welcome to include the svn-fast-export utility if you
like; I would point out that the Python version is known to leak
memory on really large repos (like something the size of the KDE
repo), and also that neither the C nor the Python version are capable
of dealing intelligently with branches yet. Aside from those caveats,
I think they're both pretty useful and I'm happy to have you include
either one; I would probably recommend the C version but I know
everything else in bzr is python, so which version to include is up to
you. Also, if anybody in the bzr community comes up with patches for
svn-fast-export, I would really like to integrate them upstream
instead of having you guys carry them from release to release.

As far as the license goes - I'm pretty sure you're in the clear.

Thanks!

-Chris

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Ian Clatworthy
<ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net> wrote:

>  With your permission, I'd like to bundle svn-fast-export.* as part of
>  the bzr-fastimport plugin so that users don't need to download it
>  separately. After all, most Bazaar users aren't that keen to install Git
>  in order to convert from Subversion to Bazaar. :-)
>
>  If I understand the MIT license, that shouldn't be a problem but I felt
>  I ought to ask anyhow. FWIW, bzr-fastimport is licensed under the GPL
>  except for the exporters - they are licensed under the MIT license (or
>  whatever their author wishes).
>
>  Is that ok?
>
>  Ian C.
>