Re-licensing email

[Frank Kingswood]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 08:33 +0100, Frank Kingswood wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> This follows from the cvs2svn license discussion.
> 
> I took the issue up with our lawyers at the Software Freedom Law Center,
> and had a fairly lengthy back and forth about all the possible loopholes
> and counterarguments.

Just to stir some more into the mix, do you have any comments on this GPLv2 
story?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/15/black_duck_gpl_web_conference_copenhaver_radcliffe/

Frank