Re: Embedding Meld

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

> 1. May I please do this?
> 
> 2. PIDA is BSD license, and although we are not distributing Meld  
> itself, the import routine (10 lines from meldapp.main) is from Meld  
> and under GPL license. Is there any way PIDA could be allowed special  
> dispensation for copying this code?
> 
> Now I guess you could say that that is just using the Meld API and it  
> is fine, but I would really appreciate your opinions on this.
> 
> One thing I did recently notice is that the back-end for Meld is now  
> under BSD license, so that may well totally replace the PIDA version  
> control system, and ship with PIDA. PIDA is all about not reinventing  
> wheels.

Hi Ali, actually I'm familiar with pida! I've been using it for the
last few weeks, principally for the filesystem tree. I like the
hyper-modular approach you've taken.

I think it's a great idea to integrate with pida. I can relicense
the 10 lines as BSD if that helps, but are there any other licencing
issues to be wary of? Do you know of any other BSD apps which
integrate with GPL apps inside the same process?

I'm delighted that you're interested in the VC backend. It would be
great if you could reuse the code. One thing you should be aware of
however is that the first interface is really a strawman interface
to work out what kind of interface is really needed. (see the bzr
thread for instance)

Stephen.