[Monotone-devel] Re: Ancestry Graph

[Bruce Stephens]

Florian Weimer <address@hidden> writes:

> * Brian Campbell:

[...]

>> GraphViz is much more widely used, actively maintained, and there
>> are more tools which use its DOT file format, so it would probably
>> be good to have monotone output dot format files, rather than xvcg
>> format.
>
> Unfortunately, GraphViz is not free software.

Whereas vcg is GNU GPL, but with some of the source deliberately not
in the form that anyone would want to edit.  I'm fairly sure it was
once regarded as non-free (possible even non-distributable).  I can't
really see how it's free software now.