[ANN] MacHg 0.9.0 : OSX gui client for Mercurial

[Jason Harris]

On May 3, 2010, at 2:06 AM, Benoit Boissinot wrote:

> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> It's not obvious under which licence your software is. In the repo,
>> you included mercurial (GPLv2+) and some BSD libraries. If you
>> distribute your software with mercurial, that probably makes the
>> resulting binaries GPL.
>> But technically it seems you only call hg from the command line, so as
>> long as you don't include Hg in your repo you could use another
>> license (e.g. BSD or Apache).
> 
> Looking at the website:
> http://jasonfharris.com/machg/goals/full_license/full_license.html
> I see it's a classic new BSD license, it would probably a good idea to
> it to the headers of you source files.

Thanks! I'll do this. So any comment on BSD versus say GPL2+ as far as the wishes of the Mercurial team. Basically I am open to whatever would be better. I have a slight preference for more open-ness, but most of all I would just want to ease the licensing headaches going forward.

> And you should definitely list MacHg in
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/OtherTools
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Benoit

Thanks!

I was going to let the dust settle for like 3 days or so as users try it out. Of course things are working quite nicely for me, and the machines I and a few others have tested this on, but once it gets a real world hammering by various users out there a few show stoppers might come up, ie they have some common extension, or some program installed, or something which would be sufficiently common to be a show stopper. Once its cleared 3 days or so of use in the real world, all start posting announcements to tool lists like that, wikipedia, version tracker, files.com, etc...

Cheers,
  Jas