Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incide

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:10 AM, C. P. Ghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 19.11.2012 14:34, Ivan Voras wrote:
> >>
> >> On 17/11/2012 22:48, Chris Rees wrote:
> >>
> >>> (and is GPL btw)
> >>
> >>
> >> Since we're discussing it, Mercurial is BSDL-ed, and apparently has
> >> proper crypto signing using GPG:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FAQ#FAQ.2FTechnicalDetails.How_do_Mercurial_hashes_get_calculated.3F
> >
> >
> > :%s/BSD/LGP/
> >
> > http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/
>
> Even if it was BSD licensed, Mercurial has a huge dependency:
> Python; and Git is Perl-based. So neither of them is ideal, IMHO.
> If at all, we'd need a lean and mean distributed SCM program
> like Mercurial or Git, but written in C that we could add to base.
> Any volunteers?
>
> -cpghost.
>
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http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/License
http://selenic.com/hg/file/tip/COPYING
http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/

"Mercurial is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License Version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt> or any
later version."

No one of them above mentions "BSD license" , or "dual license" , etc.

Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk

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