future of HgKit

[Theodore Tso]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:42:14PM +0100, Tom Widmer wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:10:20AM +0100, Tom Widmer wrote:
> >> Well, it's not necessarily worth it, since it will be GPL and thus not 
> >> distributable with Eclipse.
> > 
> > News flash.  Distributions ships Eclipse and other GPL components
> > (including hg) on the same CD-ROM, and no one has ever tried to sue
> > them over it.  You know, because it's legal to do so....
> > 
> > 				- Ted
> > 				(Who is amazed at how many legally
> > 				ignorant people who are insisting on
> > 				promulgating the same myths on the
> > 				mailing list over and over again.)
> 
> Apologies for my imprecise language - I meant distributable as an 
> Eclipse plugin.

That's still false.  Plugins can call CLI's without causing GPL to
infect the plugin source code.

Otherwise what do you think happens when a proprietary unix shell
(such as can be found on Solaris, AIX, HPUX, etc.) runs a GPL'ed
program like gcc or emacs, either from the user's terminal or from a
shell script?

						- Ted