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Free software to the rescue.Free software to the rescue.Posted Oct 10, 2002 17:36 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)In reply to: Free software to the rescue. by leandro Parent article: The BitKeeper non-compete clause
Also I am amazed to see that, if Linus had applied to Linux the reasoning he uses to justify BitKeeper usage, Linux would never have seen light. The better tools to the task at the time Linux got started were the BSD Unices... At the time, BSD was under a legal cloud, so he couldn't use it.
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Free software to the rescue. Posted Oct 17, 2002 8:32 UTC (Thu) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link] > BSD was under a legal cloud, so he couldn't use it. He could, just as the GNU people used. He couldn't be sure of his legal status, so he perhaps would have to analyse his own patches to BSD before deciding if he could share them or not, or even refrain from publishing them at all. Remember, copyright is not about usage, but copying.
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