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Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com> |
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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:05:28 -0400 |
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Licensing
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hg-review is distributed under the same license as Mercurial itself: `GPL
version 2 or any later version
<http://bitbucket.org/sjl/hg-review/src/tip/LICENSE>`_.
If you want to create a program that works with hg-review you should look at
`Mercurial's License FAQ page <http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/License>`_ to
learn about how this might affect you.
The basic idea is:
* If you review code with hg-review, you are not affected by the license.
* If you bundle hg-review with another application and don't change anything,
you are not affected by the license.
* If you create an application that interacts with hg-review solely through its
command line interface or web interface, you are not affected by the license.
* If you create an application that interactes with hg-review by calling its
internal Python API, you *are* affected by the license and will need to
license your application's code as GPL version 2 or later.
Note that the last item (using hg-review's internal Python API) is probably the
one you *won't* want to do anyway, since the Python API is *not* stable.
If you have any questions please `email Steve <mailto:steve@stevelosh.com>`_,
but remember that he's not a lawyer and might not have a fast answer for tricky
questions.