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Re: Shipping a binary version of svnmerge.py under Windows

From: Giovanni Bajo <rasky_at_develer.com>
Date: 2006-05-25 17:33:11 CEST

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:

> After some IRC discussion, I agree that we should be careful with
> distributing
> GPLed software in our binary distributions. I think it would be
> better if the svnmerge binary was distributed separately with a link
> to it somewhere on our site.

OK. Out of curiosity, would you mind clarifying this decision? What is
exactly the problem with shipping a GPL executable within a SVN binary
distribution?

It might even be possibile to relicense svnmerge.py.

-- 
Giovanni Bajo
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