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[ogfs-dev]Re: BitKeeper



On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:41:42AM -0700, Kip Macy wrote:
> > 
> > Because Bitkeeper is not free for any project and I am not working
> > on the Linux kernel.
> 
> That isn't true. Where are you getting your information from? The same
> license applies to everyone. It is free for single-user use and multi-user
> open-logging. You only have to pay if you have multiple-users and you
> want to keep your changelogs private. If you go to their projects page
> you'll see that here are dozens of small OSS projects using it.

"Free" is not the same as "you do not have to pay for it".  See

  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

The recent events regarding the attempts of the of the owner
BitMover to limit access to the Bitkeeper kernel repository have
shown the limits of this license.  In any case, it's not my
decision byt the decision of my emplyoer whether working with BK
is acceptable.

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^


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