License Question

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Nov 27 01:54:57 CST 2008


On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 08:05 +0100, Janos Haber wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have a license question. Mercurial is GPLv2, my application is EPL.
> what happened if I want to embed (the fully mercurial tree without
> modifications) into my app. (In my app run with Jython). I break the
> GPLv2 License? Or it's ok, because the application not modified only
> used?

The usual answer is:

a) If you're only calling Mercurial via its command line interface,
you're fine.

b) If you're calling Mercurial's internals, you're not.

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