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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new
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> The license I was presented with was the BitKeeper License version
> 1.37, 02/18/02.  This does not include the clause about the license
> being unavailable to people who are developing a competing product to
> Bitkeeper.
> 
> I pointed this out to you in a private E-Mail, but I didn't receive a
> response - I think it is very confusing for people to believe that
> they are licensed to use the product, only to later be told that they
> are not.

We've been working with IBM to try and come up with a revision of the license
which addresses some of the problems.  When we get done we'll update the
website.

By the way, the non-compete clause was put in because I figured the standard
"no reverse engineering" clause would cause even more fuss.    Little did 
I know.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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