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Re: [spaces-dev] SVN or CVS?
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Hi Bjorn,
While were on the subject. I have a related question on the IP/licensing
topic.
CVS is developed and released under GPL. The Eclipse CVS client is
clean-room and of course EPL. Yet it implements a GPL'ed protocol and
can only function together with a GPL'ed server installation.
SVN on the other hand, is Apache/BSD style license. The
svnClientAdapter, and the JavaHL CLI, is also Apache/BSD. The Subclipse
and Subversive clients are both EPL. The only part I know has a GPL'ish
license is the optional SVNKit.
From a laymans perspective, it really looks like SVN whould have the
upper hand :-). I know that Subclipse revoked their submission since
they could not make it pass the Eclipse IP barrier for some reason. I
still haven't understood what that reason was. Obviously it must have a
more apparent GPL dependency then the one from the CVS client. What is
it that blocks Subversive?
- thomas
Bjorn Freeman-Benson wrote:
Given that the Subversive project is the official Eclipse subversion
interface and that the Subversive project makes use of some GPL code,
which is a no-no, the Subversive project is currently held up in the
Eclipse IP review. I suggest that we switch to working with CVS until
the Subversive legal issues are resolved. Specifically, since the next
thing we are working on is "Share...", we should Share to a CVS server
for now.
Thoughts?
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