Re-licensing email

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:59 AM, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

yes it is.
Re-licensing seems the only option that allows us to use the svn bindings.

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

Cheers,

Benoit