Hello Folks, First, thanks for fossil, it is a wonderful tool. I normally use mercurial but the simplicity (to use) and power of fossil is refreshing.
I make a Desktop software that is completely self-contained, it stores its datas as bunch of files like basically everyone. My users are requesting that the software becomes network aware in the sense that the data from multiple users could be shared. Since the software works with local files, all I would need to do is to replicate this files across the networks, files are small and usually one user will hardly work on other users files but he may need to refer to it or generate some reports or transfer ownership. Instead of bolting some client/server logic into it, I though about bundling fossil with it and making the data folder a repository, this way, if two users want to keep in sync, all they would need is to sync their repo and the application would do this for them by driving fossil on the background, this could even be extended with no code trouble to be like a central repository with everything and multiple users pulling from it, then all my software would need was to work with local files and it would use fossil to keep itself in sync with its peers. I am aware that Fossil is licensed under GPLv2 and by reading the license and checking with many sources I became very confused. I don't want to do anything that is not permitted by the license, so if I can't bundle fossil executable with my application, I will simply not do it and pursue some other way. Can anyone shed a clue in the right direction? Can I bundle the binary executable with commercial software? I've seen some companies doing that kind of stuff but I'd rather ask this list and the developers before doing anything. Thanks in advance for your time. Sorry if this post is inappropriate Andre Alves Garzia -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code.
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