Re: openbkweb-0.0

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
14 Feb 2003 14:41:41 +0000

On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 06:30, David Lang wrote:
> Guys, Larry isn't saying that you are not allowed to BUY a copy of
> bitkeeper and reeverse engineer it, he is saying that you are not allowed
> to get the FREE copy of bitkeeper and reverse engineer it.

What he says about this is not worth a sheeps fart. Most of the world
allows reverse engineering for compatibility, full stop. Often not for
cloning, so writing bk extracting tools is very different to cloning BK

Alan

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