The Mercurial license is GPLv2

[Manlio Perillo]

Mathieu Lacage ha scritto:
> 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 ?


No.

> Matt's example was not totally
> random.
>

I know; and understand the problem.

However I simply don't like that GPL is preventing me to use Mercurial 
as a library in an Open Source framework, and I assume that the authors 
of Mercurial are not against this use.


> Mathieu
> 

Manlio Perillo