Bug#959834: Fwd: RFP: diffutils-java -- Implementation of general operations with diff files
On 06/05/2020 19:34, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> On 06/05/2020 19:31, 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.
>>
>> Correction: they’re not fully compatible, but API difference is not big
>> and porting is quite straight-forward.
>
> Right, I now remember one more reason why I chose the fork but not the
> original. There was a licensing issue around the diff algo
> implementation in the original. I don’t remember the details, but the
> fork has completely reimplemented it, thus working it around.
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:
https://bugs.debian.org/845471#52
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Cheers,
Andrej
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