On 26 February 2011 16:34, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/26/11 9:20 AM, David Kirkby wrote: >> >> On 26 February 2011 13:57, Jeroen Demeyer<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> At least Mercurial and PARI are GPLv2+. But for example R is GPLv2 only. >> >> Are you sure about Mercurial and Pari? >> >> http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/ >> >> says "Mercurial is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU >> General Public License Version 2." If one clicks the link to the >> license >> >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt >> >> it says GPL 2, with no mention of GPLv2+, or "any later version", so >> I'm unsure how you arrive at that. > > That's confusing, because the FAQ says GPLv2+: > > http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/License#What_is_Mercurial.27s_license.3F > > Jason True, it is confusing - as is this whole GPL 2/3 mess created by the FSF. I'm inclined to believe the FAQ, which is a Wiki, but note that is Wiki which anyone in the world can edit, whereas the page I referenced, which says only GPL 2 http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/ can only be edited by a select number of people. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
