The Mercurial license is GPLv2

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 06:34 +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Samstag 02 August 2008 17:49:36 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> > 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+:
> 
> I should have read to the end of the threads before answering - sorry for the 
> needless post. 
> 
> > The wiki originally pointed to GPLv2 at the GNU project, but at some
> > point after GPLv3 was released, they changed the link contents out from
> > under us. How rude! 
> 
> The wiki pointed to gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt which doesn't state any version. 
> The link just said "GPL", so making that link point to the most recent version 
> of the GPL seems logical to me (so I don't think that as rude). 

If projects using GPLv2 have been pointing to that link for 10 years,
and someone changes it to -a completely different license-, then yes, I
that's not only a bit rude, but something that can have serious legal
implications. Ergo, I'm no longer linking to GNU or FSF's copy of the
license as they seem to have a shortage of common sense when it comes to
stability of important web content.

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