The Mercurial license is GPLv2

[Manlio Perillo]

Matt Mackall ha scritto:
> [...]
> 
> Typically relicensing is done by finding all past contributors and
> asking them if the new license is acceptable. And I already know one
> person who would object before asking anyone. I for one am not a fan of
> the BSD license. I would be very disappointed to see a company like
> Apple come along, pick up Mercurial, make a bunch of shiny improvements,
> then force me to pay for it if I wanted a copy.
> 

I usually like to think positive, instead of thinking negative.
Personally, if a company will modify a BSD released software without 
releasing the sources, I would do everything I can do to boycott them.

IMHO BSD or MIT license are like a deal between consenting adults (a bit 
like Python phylosophy).
Of course there are bad people around, but having to "harm" good people 
to keep bad people away it's not really a good thing to do.

If you don't like BSD, then LGPL should be equally ok; what do you think?

Otherwise I should to think about some "tricks" for including Mercurial 
in wsgix without relicensing (as an example using "plugins", see 
SQLAlchemy).



Thanks  Manlio Perillo