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Re: Splitting diff functionality out of libsvn_delta

From: Zack Weinberg <zack_at_codesourcery.com>
Date: 2003-03-17 22:17:01 CET

cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> Michael Price <mprice@atl.lmco.com> writes:
>> My point being, of course, that people who prefer to use a license
>> other than the viral GPL[1] will be very happy to have a diff library
>> sitting around ready for use.
>
> Ex*act*ly. Sander, I'd rather you spend the time abstracting your
> diff stuff into an entirely separate project for the benefit of all
> the world than just into its own still-Subversion-specific library.

Just to underscore, OpenCM would very much like this -- they're using
libgdiff now (GPLed) and have headaches because of the combination of
that and libssl.

zw

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