title: What is going on with CVSNT?
body: <p>At our site, we currently use CVSNT running on Solaris as our source repository server. We use the <em>ACL</em> feature in CVSNT and depend upon TortoiseCVS being able to run the <code>cvs ls</code> command, so we can't run a regular CVS server.</p>
  
  <p>I've recently noticed that <a href="http://march-hare.com" rel="noreferrer">March Hare</a> has <em>retired</em> the <em>community version</em> of CVSNT, and now charges $426 as a distribution fee for all downloads. (The commercial version is only $85 per person).</p>
  
  <p>TortioseCVS comes with CVSNT, and I notice that this version of CVSNT has an annoying habit of displaying a dialog box asking you to <em>upgrade</em> to the supported version and will occasionally append a commercial for upgrading in the CVS commit comments.</p>
  
  <p>At the same time, there seems to be a new open source package called <a href="http://www.evscm.org/" rel="noreferrer">EVS</a> that March Hare seems to be pushing as an alternative to the formally open source CVS.</p>
  
  <p>Exactly what is going on? Is EVS a replacement for CVSNT that TortoiseCVS can use? If we upgrade our CVS repository to use EVS, will users notice?</p>
  
  <p>Can I continue to use CVSNT without paying the $426 distribution fee?</p>
  
  <p>We'll probably be moving over to Subversion as soon as we get a few other issues under control, but I know plenty of shops that still use CVS, and I wonder if there are any licensing issues using Tortoise with CVSNT or continuing using CVSNT for handling the source repository.</p>