Re: copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode)

[Stefan Monnier]

> (I think I can do that in mercurial with the evolve extension and then
> try to push that locally with the hg-git extension to the local git
> repository).  That might however mess up things.

Side note: the current elpa.gnu.org scripts only know how to deal with
upstream Git repositories.  In theory they might be able to deal with
a Mercurial upstream using `hg::...`, but I wouldn't bet on it working
reliably (based on my past experience with the `git-remote-hg` plugin).


        Stefan