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. -- Cheers, Andrej
