Re: Meld for Personal projects

[murali Krishna <murali krishna586 gmail com>]

Thank for the reply.

I want to use the existing meld source code and remove meld UI.
I want to use it as a library that takes 2 folders, return differences
as objects and build HTML pages that look like meld UI. The main idea
is to get the differences as objects in any programming language. Is
this possible?

Thank You,
Murali

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 2:31 AM Kai <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 18:14, murali Krishna via meld-list
> <meld-list gnome org> wrote:
> > I found a Google library(https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch)
> > that does the same for texts but I want to extend this to large files.
> > I'm stuck at comparing the files in a folder effectively. Meld does
> > this effectively but there is no library for personal use. Can someone
> > please help me with this?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "for personal use" here. Meld is
> licensed under the GPLv2 or later, so you can use Meld's code under
> the terms of that license. Specifically, if your project is also GPLv2
> or later then you can make use of Meld's code in that project. I don't
> want to get into details of how the GPL works, but you should be able
> to find plenty of resources explaining the conditions and requirements
> for reusing GPLed code.
>
> cheers,
> Kai