Re: Will Martin contribute to XEmacs in the future?
Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
the BitKeeper license would force a nasty choice on at least one
board
member, who is a sometime prcs developer.
At first I thought you were slightly wrong -- I thought that you only
could not use BK if you were using it to manage the source code of a
competing product. I may or may not have gotten that idea from something
McVoy said. However:
http://www.bitkeeper.com/bkl.txt
"Notwithstanding any other terms in this License, this License is not
available to You if You and/or your employer develop, produce, sell,
and/or resell a product which contains substantially similar
capabilities of the BitKeeper Software, or, in the reasonable opinion of
BitMover, competes with the BitKeeper Software."
This clause does make it sound like you can't use it if you develop a
competing product, even if you only use BK to manage the source code of
a completely different product. That's kinda harsh.
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