Garrett Rooney writes:
> On 5/19/06, Giovanni Bajo <rasky@develer.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if it would make sense to ship a binary version of svnmerge.py
> > in the Windows binary pack. I can easily provide a standalone executable that
> > works without Python installed. But I have no clue how the packaging process
> > works, so if there is agreement that this is a good thing to do, I would need
> > instructions on how to proceed to make it happen (too late for 1.4.0?)
>
> I'm not overly thrilled with the idea of shipping a GPLed script in
> our installer. At this point, all the functionality we ship is under
> a BSDish license (well, with the exception of the bdb filesystem, but
> you can leave that out), if we start shipping svnmerge.py all of a
What we're discussing here is the binary Windows distribution, in
which we don't leave bdb out, so I don't understand the above.
> sudden part of the functionality is is only available if you're ok
> with the GPL. It's one thing to have contrib scripts that are GPL,
> another to include it in the installer, IMO.
>
But the functionality is still completely optional to use.
But gettext, which we also ship in the binary distribution is LGPL,
and that's not optional. Isn't that a bigger problem?
Regards,
//Peter
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Received on Sun May 21 12:52:09 2006