Janne Snabb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, [email protected] wrote: > > One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL. > > AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical > > widely-used infrastructure if a viable non-GPL alternative > > exists. > > The project currently uses Perforce for many sub-projects, > so using GPL licenced solution could hardly be a problem.
According to the "General Information" table here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software Perforce is not GPL -- it is proprietary (but "Free ... for OSS development"). Thus the fact that FreeBSD currently uses Perforce tells us nothing about the acceptability of a GPL licensed solution. (Ditto for SVN, which -- as someone already pointed out -- is not GPL either.) There are two distributed, BSD-licensed VCS listed on that page: Codeville and Fossil. Both are in ports, but Codeville has been proposed for removal as it seems no longer to be under active development. That leaves Fossil as a possibly-viable BSD-licensed alternative to Mercurial. (Of course, there may be others that aren't listed on that particular Wikipedia page.) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
