On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Ned Deily <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>  "Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Before you upgrade: give me some time to come up with a script that
>> uses Mercurial API instead to compute the revset and then invoke the
>> diff command.
>>
>> We must get something out of using a Python-based DVCS...
>
> Note the Mercurial project warns that use of the Mercurial API 'is a
> strong indication that you're creating a "derived work" subject to the
> GPL.'

> Would distributing a script that called the API in any way taint Python?

Yes, if used to build or run Python.

No, if used to develop Python.
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