The Mercurial license is GPLv2

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 21:29 +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:

> > 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.

So, you don't buy any apple hardware ? Matt's example was not totally
random.

Mathieu