Bug#959834: Fwd: RFP: diffutils-java -- Implementation of general operations with diff files
On 06/05/2020 19:39, Andrej Shadura wrote:
>>> On 06/05/2020 19:25, Andrej Shadura wrote:
>>>> I don’t think we need the original code since it’s much older and the
>>>> fork has seen quite some development. They are backwards-compatible
>>>> except that the Maven coordinates are different. Basically, we only need
>>>> to patch Bazel to use it.
> Java-diff-utils is based on the LGPL-2.1 code which IIRC was a direct
> port of GNU diff to Java, and the then-maintainer of j-d-u has slapped
> ASL on that code:
In other words, in my opinion the right approach would be to port Bazel
to the current j-d-u project, submit the patch upstream and thus reduce
the number of packages depending on the legacy j-d-u.
Uploading unmaintained legacy code with questionable licensing is a big
meh in my book.
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Cheers,
Andrej
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