Found more license info, snippet from README:

» This directory contains the source distribution for the University of 
Melbourne
» Mercury compiler, version 0.13.1.
» 
»       The Mercury implementation is free software, but it is Copyright
»       (C) 1993-2006 The University of Melbourne.  It is distributed
»       under the terms of the GNU General Public License.  See the file
»       COPYING for copying permission.
» 
»       The Mercury library and runtime (the files in the library and
»       runtime subdirectories) are distributed under the terms of the
»       GNU Library General Public License.  See the file COPYING.LIB for
»       copying permissions for those files.
» 
»       If those licencing arrangements are not satisfactory, please
»       contact us!  We are willing to offer alternative arrangements,
»       if the need should arise.
»       
» The subdirectory `boehm_gc' contains a slightly modified copy of
» version 6.5 of the conservative garbage collector distributed
» by Hans Boehm:
» 
»       Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers
»       Copyright (c) 1991-1995 by Xerox Corporation.  All rights reserved.
»       Copyright (c) 1996-1999 by Silicon Graphics.  All rights reserved.
»       Copyright (c) 1999-2001 by Hewlett-Packard. All rights reserved.
» 
»       THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
»       EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
» 
»       Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program for any
»       purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
»       Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is
»       granted, provided the above notices are retained, and a notice
»       that the code was modified is included with the above copyright
»       notice.
» 
» A few files (config.guess, config.sub) are derived from code that is
» copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc, and are distributed
» under the GNU General Public License version 2.
» 
» The program `texi2html' in the `doc' directory is copyright by CERN
» and is distributed under the GNU General Public
» License version 2:
» 
»       This program is the intellectual property of the European
»       Laboratory for Particle Physics (known as CERN).  No guarantee
»       whatsoever is provided by CERN.  No liability whatsoever is
»       accepted for any loss or damage of any kind resulting from any
»       defect or inaccuracy in this information or code.
» 
» The files in the `samples' directory are either public domain, or
» distributed under the GNU General Public License.
» 

------------------- The next text applies do a different source package,
which we should not want to package, but stays here for reference
-------------------

» Some of the files in the `extras' subdirectory (which is now distributed
» separately in the `mercury-extras' package) have fairly restrictive
» copyright licences:  
» 
»       The `Togl' library in extras/graphics/mtogl/togl.* is copyright by
»       Brian Paul and Ben Bederson; see the file
»       extras/graphics/mtogl/LICENSE.TOGL.
» 
»       The Tk files in extras/graphics/mtogl/tk.* are copyright
»       by the Regents of the University of California,
»       Sun Microsystems, Inc., and other parties. 
»       See the file extras/graphics/mtogl/LICENSE.TK.
» 
» THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR 
IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.  See the file COPYING.

I will attempt to seek legal advice towards packaging this program
(mercury, NOT mercury-extras), when I've the time.

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