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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