Max Battcher wrote: > > I don't see what the problem is then. You can have the CPL plugin and > GPL Darcs in the same zip file. You don't need to relicense anything to > do that.
I agree with Max and with Thomas Zander that the "Eclipse darcs plugin" example is hardly a motivating example. The problem is that if we wait for a motivating example to appear, then it may be too late to change the license and make that example possible. Suppose that someday a Free Software hacker writes a beautiful darcs GUI using the SWT graphics toolkit. Suppose that by the time this happens, and the darcs authors become aware of it, that it is too late to secure relicensing permissions for the necessary darcs code because the author of the code is incommunicado or dead. Then it will be legally impossible for anyone to distribute a version of darcs integrated with that beautiful GUI, and in fact it may be illegal for people to distribute that GUI at all. I am almost sure that this is not the intent of the darcs authors. This kind of concern for legalistic detail may seem strange to some people, but in fact there are numerous cases in which Free Software projects have been damaged by inadvertent licensing conflicts such as this one. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
