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Re: JGIT: discuss: diff/patch implementation

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SRSverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2008, 17:31 UTC
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 18:18, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> I don't know how the Eclipse foundation feels about distributing
> LGPL in the IDE.  One of our major reasons for going with a BSD
> license on JGit was so the Eclipse Git team provider plugin could be
> distributed alongside the CVS team provider, as part of the basic IDE
> team provider package.  We're clearly not ready for that wide of a
> distribution, but it was a goal Robin and I set out for the project.

Why not keep that as a goall? For now, you can stick with one of the existing LGPL implementations, later, when you want to have JGit distributed with Eclipse, you (or Johanness Schindelin when he has the time) write up your own Java version of it and license it BSD

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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Message 14 of 16 in “JGIT: discuss: diff/patch implementation”
  1. Francis GaliegueNov 10, 2008
  2. Robin RosenbergNov 10, 2008
  3. Francis GaliegueNov 10, 2008
  4. Robin RosenbergNov 10, 2008
  5. Francis GaliegueNov 10, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinNov 10, 2008
  7. Francis GaliegueNov 10, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2008
  9. Shawn O. PearceNov 10, 2008
  10. Francis GaliegueNov 10, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinNov 10, 2008
  12. Raimund BauerNov 11, 2008
  13. Shawn O. PearceNov 11, 2008
  14. Sverre RabbelierNov 11, 2008
  15. Rogan DawesNov 11, 2008
  16. Shawn O. PearceNov 11, 2008

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