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["Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 15:15 +0200, Jussi Pakkanen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Does it mean that making the branches completely incompatible even in
> > terms of licensing is a good idea?
> 
> Of course not, but the fact is that the two different branches are
> most likely not going to merge.

I was contacted by Serge and got some additional elucidations for
everybody to know.

The main reason why he's licensing his code under GPL is that he's using
stuff from GPL'd libraries (although he's trying to keep track of the
origins of the code). However, he's happy to grant the permission for
you to relicense his code under BSD if you feel like including something
into trunk. So this is not an issue.

In what concerns aggressive changes to the source code, he's heavily
using the branch himself, so the speed of the implementation of specific
features he needs comes first and all the rest follows... However he's
aware of the fact that it makes merging difficult, but for the time
being there are no other options that can suit him.

The nested namespaces were an experiment that proved out to be an
unfortunate idea, so basically all these changes are already reverted,
however you may still stumble upon some leftovers...
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev