The Mercurial license is GPLv2

Dennis Brakhane brakhane at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 5 12:20:32 CDT 2008


On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> But if you make a derived work of any of these files and, for instance,
> revlog.py, the only license that covers both is GPLv2. Thus Mercurial as
> a whole is GPLv2 only.

Just out of curiosity, what part of GPLv3 do you dislike?


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