Messages in this thread | | | From | (Anton Ertl) | Subject | Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:55:48 GMT |
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Alexandre Oliva writes: >They can always pay for the non-free license to get that, I suppose.
As far as I understand it, there are only non-free licences for Bitkeeper. For one you pay with money, for the other with freedom.
While I am posting in this thread, I have a few questions to Larry McVoy:
- You wrote that you could not develop Bitkeeper as free software, because it is economically not viable. You also write that you put the non-compete clause in the pay-with-freedom license, because you don't want to see a free clone of bitkeeper eat your business. So do you consider a free Bitkeeper-like system economically viable after all?
- You say that all information is there, in the form of the patches. Could Bitkeeper reconstruct the Linux tree(s) from the patches alone?
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