mercurial at 9457: new changeset

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 12:09 +0400, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:15:22AM +0200, Mercurial Commits wrote:
> 
> > New changeset in mercurial:
> > 
> > http://selenic.com/repo/hg//rev/f3f400b13984
> > changeset:   9457:f3f400b13984
> > tag:         tip
> > user:        Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>
> > date:        Wed Sep 23 00:23:50 2009 -0500
> > summary:     convert: disable SVN support due to library license incompatibility
> 
> As far as I see, Apache vs. GPLv2 incompatibility shouldn't bother
> Mercurial.  Patent clause in question only covers
> contributions/derivative works, and this explicitly doesn't
> include linking:
> 
> [quote from http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0]
> 
> For the purposes of this License, Derivative Works shall not
> include works that remain separable from, or merely link (or bind
> by name) to the interfaces of, the Work and Derivative Works
> thereof.
> 
> [/quote]

Interesting. I'll ask the SFLC for an opinion.

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