Avery Pennarun [off-list ref] writes:
Overall I agree that there's little benefit in preserving the history,
at least as far as I can see, *except* that some code changes were
submitted by people other than me and squashing those changes might
conceivably cause licensing confusion down the road.
That is a good point, and it sounds like a good enough justification to
merge with history, at least for me.