The Mercurial license is GPLv2

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Dienstag 05 August 2008 22:17:51 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> concerns. Here's an article with some of the bigger issues:
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/200422/
>
> While most of those issues don't particularly matter to Mercurial
> itself, they do matter to the larger community. So I'm not particularly
> pleased with GPLv3.

Thanks for posting the link! 

I was getting unsure about the merits of the GPLv3, but reading in on the 
comments reminded me again why the GPLv3 is essential today. 

Put really short my reason is: The GPLv3 closes some loopholes to make sure 
that when I get a product using free software from someone, I have the same 
rights for using it as he had when it still was his product. 
So it enforces a basic symmetry of rights again which I think essential. 

I mean the finished license here, not the draft. 

But I won't go deeper on that. I already did two years ago and then again when 
the final GPLv3 was released. 

Best wishes, 
Arne

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