The Mercurial license is GPLv2

[Theodore Tso]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:58:18PM +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

You can use it in an open source framework; you can't just use it in a
proprietary framework.  :-)

Actually, it doesn't totally prevent the use of Mercurial in things
like IDE's.  IDE's can simply run Mercurial in a separate process.

     	     	       	      	  - Ted