[ANN] MacHg 0.9.0 : OSX gui client for Mercurial

[Jens Alfke]

On May 5, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Chris Scott wrote:

> Sure it's not "linking" -- which was the original metric of being bound by the GPL -- but it is "incorporating GPL-covered software in a proprietary system".  IANAL, but one could argue that this is an extension, or derivative work, of hg.  They provide the same functionality through different interfaces.  

If this were a credible legal case, I think the FSF would have sued Apple years ago over its Xcode IDE, which is a front-end to tools like GCC. It’s exactly the same scenario.

—Jens