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

[Kirill Smelkov]

Thomas, Mercurial crew,

First of all I'd like to say big "Thank You" for Mercurial -- we use it
in SymPy [1] project.

Recently an issue arose about how to store version info in development
installs of SymPy [2], and the first thing that comes to mind is to
mimic mercurial/version.py itself.

However SymPy is BSD licensed, and Mercurial is GPL licensed, so we just
can't include version.py as is in our sources.

So here goes the question:

  Is it possible for SymPy project to get a copy of mercurial/version.py
  under BSD license?


We all respect copyright and authorship, and also ones choice of
license, so if this is not possible - it would be ok.

But if it would be possible, it would make life a bit easier for SymPy
users and developers.


Thanks beforehand.

-- 
    Всего хорошего, Кирилл.


[1] http://www.sympy.org/
[2] http://groups.google.com/group/sympy-patches/browse_thread/thread/a9e5b8448f5ab488