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SubjectRe: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way.
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Larry McVoy wrote:

> A clone is illegal because you'd have to reverse engineer to do the
> clone and reverse engineering is allowed for the purpose of
> interoperability, not for the purpose of making a clone.

This is a good point to remember, especially since you
contradict it later on in your own mail.

Making a program to extract data from a bitkeeper
repository is fine. It is covered by this interoperability
clause.

What is arguably (not) fine is making a program that does
everything bitkeeper does and does it in the same way, ie.
creating a bitkeeper clone.

However, that has nothing to do with a program that can
extract data from a bitkeeper repository but quite clearly
isn't a bitkeeper clone...

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