version.py - is it possible to relicense it to BSD?

[Matt Mackall]

On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 14:23 +0400, Kirill Smelkov wrote:
> Thomas, Mercurial crew,
> 
> First of all I'd like to say big "Thank You" for Mercurial -- we use it
> in SymPy [1] project.

Hmm. Killing version.py has been on my todo list for a while. Really,
all we need is something like this in our build script:

echo "version = '`hg id -it`'" > version.py

..which I frankly find much easier to understand than the contortions
that we're currently doing.

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