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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the BitKeeper network protocol documented?
To: davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:40:42 +0000 (GMT)
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> >so are you saying it's illegal for an opensource project to use a
> >commercial version control system, or that use of such a version
> >control
> >system by a GPL project forces the company to GPL their version
> >control system?
> 
> 	I don't understand how I can be clearer than I've already been. The 
> GPL requires you to do some things if you want to distribute 
> binaries. One of those things is to distribute the source code in the 
> "preferred form" for modifying it. Thus, if you don't have the source 
> code in its preferred form for making modifications, you can't 
> distribute binaries.

OK - my current, (I.E. for this evening), prefered form is EBCDIC on a
set of 80 or so 9-track tapes.  Where can I get a copy of the kernel
source in this format?

John.
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