The Mercurial license is GPLv2

[Germán Póo-Caamaño]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 17:36 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:58:18PM +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:
> > 
> > However I simply don't like that GPL is preventing me to use Mercurial 
> > as a library in an Open Source framework, and I assume that the authors 
> > of Mercurial are not against this use.
> > 
> 
> You can use it in an open source framework; you can't just use it in a
> proprietary framework.  :-)
> 
> Actually, it doesn't totally prevent the use of Mercurial in things
> like IDE's.  IDE's can simply run Mercurial in a separate process.

Certainly, they can run it in a separate process.  The thing is using
the API to communicate with Mercurial instead of parsing the output.

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Germán Póo-Caamaño
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