**Maintainer:** this project is primarily maintained by [Stephan Beal](https://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/), a long-time Fossil contributor.

**License:** same as Fossil: the "2-Clause BSD" a.k.a. "FreeBSD License".


# Update Feb. 2021: Back from the Dead

After a 6-year forced hiatus due to chronic RSI, libfossil is again making some headway. In early Feb. 2021 its hashing support was brought up to date with regard to fossil's hardened SHA1 and SHA3-256 hashes. That was the major technical hurdle preventing further progress, so now they way is clear (or clearer) for bringing the library into the 2020's.
After a 6-year forced hiatus due to chronic RSI, libfossil is again making some headway. In early Feb. 2021 its hashing support was brought up to date with regard to fossil's hardened SHA1 and SHA3-256 hashes. That was the major technical hurdle preventing further progress, so now the way is clear (or clearer) for bringing the library into the 2020's.

[The forum](/forum) is open to new contributors, either anonymously or with self-created accounts. Developers are welcomed to join [the /chat room](/chat), where there's normally at least one person lingering.

Developer access on this project is *currently* opened only to active participants of the [Fossil SCM][home-fossil] project (as committers and/or forum participants). It does not, however, require the same code release waiver which that project requires. If you would like developer access, please contact [the primary maintainer][home-sgb].


[home-sgb]: https://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/