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Subject: Re: openbkweb-0.0
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 06:30, David Lang wrote:
> Guys, Larry isn't saying that you are not allowed to BUY a copy of
> bitkeeper and reeverse engineer it, he is saying that you are not allowed
> to get the FREE copy of bitkeeper and reverse engineer it.

What he says about this is not worth a sheeps fart. Most of the world 
allows reverse engineering for compatibility, full stop. Often not for
cloning, so writing bk extracting tools is very different to cloning BK

Alan

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