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Ronnie Brown
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Have a look at

(R. BROWN, P.R. HEATH and H. KAMPS), ``Groupoids and the Mayer-Vietoris sequence'', J. Pure Appl. Alg. 30 (1983) 109-129.

A Mayer-Vietoris sequence for a pullback of a covering mao also appears in Section 10.7 of Topology and Groupoids, and was in the 1988 (differently named) edition.

Edit: Here is an extract from the above paper

mv http://pages.bangor.ac.uk/%7Emas010/gpds-mv.jpg

which shows that there is some more information from the sequence than just the usual exact sequence. This sequence applies to spaces as is shown in Section 4 of the above paper. The point is that this detailed exactness is easier to extract in the groupoid model than directly in the topology.

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