licensing issues with gpl3 due to the gpl2only limitation

[David Soria Parra]

Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in Pida we use some libs that are licensed under GPL3,
> so we are pretty screwed for the native mercurial integration cause we
> can't do any implicit re-licensing of any gpl2only code.
> 
> It would help if hg would change from gpl2only to something thats
> compatible with gpl3 (like gpl2+ for example).

Even if we would agree with that, it would require the agreement of any 
contributor to HG who's code is still used. The other code has to be 
replaced. This seems to be huge task!