The Mercurial license is GPLv2

[Martin Geisler]

Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> writes:

> Matt Mackall ha scritto:
>> All the core source is marked as GPLv2-only by referencing only
>> COPYING and not allowing for later versions. Some small parts of it
>> are available on their own under GPLv2+:
>
> [...]
>
> This is a big problem for me, what should I do? I think that GPL is
> a good license for a "program", but it is a "bad" license for a
> library.

The goal of the GPL is to ensure that the amount of free software
grows, and so it requires you to either change your license to GPL too
or to stop using Mercurial as a library.

You might want to read this essay:

  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

-- 
Martin Geisler

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