Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:08:34 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new |
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> The license I was presented with was the BitKeeper License version > 1.37, 02/18/02. This does not include the clause about the license > being unavailable to people who are developing a competing product to > Bitkeeper. > > I pointed this out to you in a private E-Mail, but I didn't receive a > response - I think it is very confusing for people to believe that > they are licensed to use the product, only to later be told that they > are not.
We've been working with IBM to try and come up with a revision of the license which addresses some of the problems. When we get done we'll update the website.
By the way, the non-compete clause was put in because I figured the standard "no reverse engineering" clause would cause even more fuss. Little did I know. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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