Tom Oinn wrote:
> Ketan wrote:
>> If a full-fledged editor is in place it should bring in the undo 
>> functionality with it.
>> In my opinion, beanshell is *the most* important processor of Taverna 
>> and plugging a smart editor is worth it.
> 
> I had jEdit working with it two years ago, abandonned because the code 
> was under full GPL.

Yes it's under GPL 2.0.

> Personally I'd be fine with Taverna being GPL but 
> that wasn't my call.

According to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html -

<quote>
Using the ordinary GPL for a library gives free software developers an 
advantage over proprietary developers: a library that they can use, 
while proprietary developers cannot use it.
</quote>

so there would be potentially adverse consequences to switching to GPL.

> Given the team's limited resources, do I take your email as an offer to 
> implement this? Congratulations, welcome to the party....
> 
> Tom

Alan

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