The Mercurial license is GPLv2

[Manlio Perillo]

Matt Mackall ha scritto:
> [...]
> The Apple reference is in regards to their embrace of FreeBSD, which has
> taken that operating system from obscure to popular and proprietary. If
> that's the FreeBSD folks' idea of success, then great for them; in my
> view, it's a rather dismal failure. 
> 

 From what you wrote, it seems that FreeBSD become proprietary.
FreeBSD is always Open Source, and nobody is forcing you to buy
Apple Mac OS X.

I'm against Apple, but at least there is a valid alternative to Windows 
(and it's custom, non POSIX, API).

 >
 > [...]
 >
>> Perhaps a middle ground where the Mercurial back-end library is LGPL  
>> would satisfy both camps.
> 
> It's not gonna happen, folks.
> 

Ok, thanks for the clarification.



Manlio Perillo