>> Just for clarification, there are two projects involved here. SnowFS is the underlying open-source VCS, and Snowtrack is the commercial UI build around it.

This discussion sounds like they were afraid to build Snowtrack on top of git.

I'm not a fan of the names of git commands and some of the other details about it, but functionally it works well and is the industry standard. To avoid it because of the GPL doesn't seem right. There are many commercial tools built of git.