future of HgKit

[Tom Widmer]

Theodore Tso wrote:
> 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.

Not in context, no.

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

Of course, but it should be clear that I wasn't talking about calling CLI's.

Tom