[Python-apps-team] Bug#493967: mercurial: Incorrect license text. Mercurial is GPLv2 only

[Dennis Brakhane]

Package: mercurial
Version: 1.0.1-4
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 12.5

/usr/share/doc/mercurial/copyright states:
> This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> (at your option) any later version.

The "(at your option) any later version" is wrong! Mercurial is
licensed as GPLv2 only, see here:

http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2008-August/020534.html

or the mercurial homepage.

Greetings,
  Dennis

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mercurial depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  mercurial-common              1.0.1-4    Scalable distributed version contr
ii  python                        2.5.2-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support                0.8.5      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  ucf                           3.007      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages mercurial recommends:
ii  kdiff3                        0.9.92-2   compares and merges 2 or 3 files o
ii  meld                          1.1.5.1-2  graphical tool to diff and merge f
pn  python-beaker                 <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages mercurial suggests:
ii  emacs                     22.2+2-3       The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
ii  python-elementtree        1.2.6-12       Light-weight toolkit for XML proce
pn  python-mysqldb            <none>         (no description available)
pn  python-pygments           <none>         (no description available)
ii  python-subversion         1.5.1dfsg1-1   Python bindings for Subversion
ii  qct                       1.5-1          GUI commit tool
ii  tk8.4 [wish]              8.4.19-2       Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
ii  vim                       1:7.1.314-3+b1 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor

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