Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:18:01 -0800 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident] Message-ID: <CAOgwaMvjDshGByT9Qwk8tvVfundRJ8dVkZSchSNrMwTg4898wA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADGWnjWgh%2BsWciS-XEA6SR6wukLdmqk0Hqr_Lrg5O2WGv9xyyw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAD2Ti29UoFcHendR8CcdQ4FPNW1HH0O47B1i3JW00Lke2m2POg@mail.gmail.com> <20121117221143.41c29ba2@nonamehost> <op.wnxq9eo0g7njmm@michael-think> <CADLo838oG26KmfHJ%2BtLh82GoJzzRtfqy69%2BNny1_DC8F8X4POQ@mail.gmail.com> <k8d914$ssl$1@ger.gmane.org> <50AA2A6C.8060604@gmail.com> <CADGWnjWgh%2BsWciS-XEA6SR6wukLdmqk0Hqr_Lrg5O2WGv9xyyw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:10 AM, C. P. Ghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 19.11.2012 14:34, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> > >> On 17/11/2012 22:48, Chris Rees wrote: > >> > >>> (and is GPL btw) > >> > >> > >> Since we're discussing it, Mercurial is BSDL-ed, and apparently has > >> proper crypto signing using GPG: > >> > >> > >> > http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FAQ#FAQ.2FTechnicalDetails.How_do_Mercurial_hashes_get_calculated.3F > > > > > > :%s/BSD/LGP/ > > > > http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/ > > Even if it was BSD licensed, Mercurial has a huge dependency: > Python; and Git is Perl-based. So neither of them is ideal, IMHO. > If at all, we'd need a lean and mean distributed SCM program > like Mercurial or Git, but written in C that we could add to base. > Any volunteers? > > -cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ > http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/License http://selenic.com/hg/file/tip/COPYING http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/ "Mercurial is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt>; or any later version." No one of them above mentions "BSD license" , or "dual license" , etc. Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk Similar projects
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