Free software to the rescue.

Posted Oct 17, 2002 8:32 UTC (Thu) by leandro (guest, #1460)
In reply to: Free software to the rescue. by rfunk
Parent article: The BitKeeper non-compete clause

> 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.