Re: [spaces-dev] SVN or CVS?

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Bjorn Freeman-Benson wrote:
> "can the fact that someone creates a GPL'ed implementation of a 
> generic API invalidate the API itself " ==> No.
> The current issue in front of Eclipse Legal is that *all* the client 
> implementations put forward by the Subversive project includes one or 
> more licenses that are incompatible with the EPL. That does not 
> prevent someone (them) from creating a client implementation that 
> works with the EPL - and I hope they do so soon!
OK, so in essence you are saying that:
A client that has taken special care to only interface using a generic 
Apache/BSD licensed API is ruled out because all implementations of that 
API depend on a GPL license.
A client that is written to exclusively interface with a GPL'ed software 
through a GPL'ed protocol is OK.

There are times in life when I'm glad I don't need to deal with legal 
issues. I simply don't understand them. How an, in my opinion, extremely 
subtle difference like this, can be allowed to discriminate a superior 
and very useful software, is beyond my comprehension.

- thomas