[ANN] Kiln 1.0 Beta Testers Needed

[Benjamin Pollack]

On 1/28/10 9:52 AM, Dennis Brakhane wrote:
> I'm confused. How can a Mercurial-based system be proprietary?

Kiln is two things: a code review/code browsing/repository management 
tool, and a Mercurial hosting server.

The code review/code browsing/repository management part is written in 
C# and Wasabi, is relatively DVCS-agnostic, and doesn't even have to be 
installed on the same machine as the Mercurial hosting server.  It's not 
a derivative work of Mercurial, so it's not covered by the GPL.

The Mercurial-hosting component obviously is covered by the GPL.  To 
comply with the GPL, when customers install that component, they're 
notified that it's covered by the GPLv2 and provided with the full 
source code as a required part of the install.  While we haven't yet 
gotten around to providing the source publicly on the website for those 
who aren't customers, anyone on the beta is of course permitted to 
redistribute the the Mercurial server under the terms of the GPLv2.

If you have any other further legal questions on the nature of Kiln and 
its GPL compliance, please contact Jason Rosoff at jason at fogcreek.com, 
whom I've asked to join this mailing list to respond to this and similar 
questions.

Cheers,

Benjamin Pollack
Kiln Development Team
Fog Creek Software