Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Ancestry Graph

[Zack Weinberg]

Bruce Stephens <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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.

IIRC someone managed to beat un-obfuscated sources out of the authors.

It's still decidedly not my favorite piece of software; it's not hard
to make it crash, the documentation is a joke, and the user interface
... let's not even go there.

zw