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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 02:00:15 -0700
From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
To: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
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Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new
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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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