From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:31:13 GMT Subject: Re: JGIT: discuss: diff/patch implementation Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20081111171816.GK2932@spearce.org> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 18:18, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > 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 -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier