License of Mercurial [was: Bitbucket.org]

Dennis Brakhane brakhane at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 2 06:01:08 CDT 2008


Damn, pressed "send" too soon...

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Dennis Brakhane
<brakhane at googlemail.com> wrote:
> If you were evil, you could probably get away with assuming GPLv3. But
> instead of discussing this to death, could you, Matt, just clarify
> your intentions (and modify the sources accordingly)?

... And if it is GPLv2 only, reconsider releasing it as GPLv3 to make
things like bitbucket releasing
the source under Affero GPL possible? I realise that it might get
difficult to reach all people that ever contributed and ask them for
permission to re-license to v3.


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