Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

David Lang
2002-10-20T09:10:17Z

correction, bitkeeper doesn't let you bootstrap for free. if you buy a
bitkeeper licence then you can do anything with it you want.

the limit is only on the FREE use of bitkeeper.

David Lang

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Aaron Lehmann wrote:

> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 02:00:15 -0700
> From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
> To: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
> Cc: Zac Hansen <xaxxon@chopper.slackworks.com>,
> Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@netscape.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:40:56AM -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
> > Ask Richard if GCC was ever initially bootstrapped using a non-GPL
> > compiler suite.
>
> Ah, but that's the point!
>
> The bitkeeper license won't allow you to bootstrap a competing project
> using bitkeeper. If the same clauses existed in the licenses of these
> commercial compilers, we wouldn't have GCC.
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