[ANNOUNCE] hg describe extension (bug fixed)

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:30:03 +0200, "Benoit Boissinot" <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Sean Russell <hg at ser1.net> wrote:
>> On Monday 13 October 2008 21:30:07 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> ...
>>> > Michael is not actively using Mercurial and doesn't have time to
>>> > maintain the extension.  I have a clone of the repository; if
>>> > somebody wants to take it over, Michael has given his blessing.
>> ...
>>> I think I can do that.  You can ether email me a bundle of the
>>> clone, or put it online somewhere so I can wget/ftp it or pull from
>>> it.
>>
>> Psych!  I lied!  I don't have a clone; Michael sent me a copy of
>> describe.py with his copyright removed.  AFAIK, this is the most
>> recent copy in existence, and I'm attaching it here.
>
> Does it mean the code is now in the public domain? (it isn't clear,
> and at least in country you can't strip a copyright like that).

I seem to have lost the quoted message by Sean, but I fully agree that
licensing should be carefully handled.  We don't want to alienate
Michael, and we certainly don't want to make it harder of even
impossible to officially import `describe.py' as an Hg extension in the
future--licensed in GPLv2 like the rest of Mercurial.