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[Michael J. Flickinger]

I was thinking about subversions (svn) this morning and possible hosting on 
Savannah.

It struck me that SVN was indeed GPL incompatable, so I emailed licensing just 
to check.

Here's the email.

I'm not too sure we should end up hosting svn, after all if we can avoid using 
non-GPL software we should.


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> [mjflick - Mon Jan 09 11:18:28 2006]:
> 
> I was wondering if the license for subversions,
> http://subversion.tigris.org/project_license.html, is GPL compatable.

Unfortunately, the SVN license is not GPL compatible.

> I was thinking the third clause sort of reminds me of that old BSD
> advertising clause.

Bingo.
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