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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:26:17PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > If we decided to GPL it, I don't see how it would make sense for us
> > to do so for any reasonable price.
> 
> Not only that, but GPLing bitkeeper while you still have a large
> TODO list seems like a bad thing for the software.

*Exactly*.  And don't forget the followon stuff like integrated bug tracking.
That's not done yet either.  I wasn't pulling that $12M number out of thin
air, it's very real.
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