Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:10:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way. |
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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...
-- Great minds drink alike.
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