Re: [RFC] Remove contrib/ from our repo

Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Hyrum K. Wright
> <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>> Thoughts?
>
> IMO, a useful tool in contrib/ is svnmerge.py which I (and I know lots
> of others) use on a daily basis.
>
> I guess that the original authors were against us distributing it
> under anything other than GPLv2, but...well, I'm wondering if we could
> ask them again to let us relicense it and move it under tools/.

svnmerge.py is indeed one of those "special" contrib items that a) remains
semi-actively maintained, and b) sees widespread usage. If not tools/, then
perhaps a new Googlecode or Tigris project would be a suitable home for it?

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