Re-licensing email

[TK Soh]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Frank Kingswood
<frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk> wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I got a surprising email this morning regarding relicensing Mercurial under
> GPLv2+. There was (apart from the Mercurial-must-follow-Eclipse-license
> thread) not any recent discussion on the mailing list about this.

I too received a similar email. I assume the email is legitimate. Or is it?

> Matt's most recent post (Re: Relicensing pt_BR translation file) was pretty
> categorical:
>        "The text in Mercurial is GPLv2"
>
> Discuss?
>
> Frank
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