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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:42:20 -0500
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
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Subject: Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed BitKeeper clone
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On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 05:30:42PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 16:11, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > He's not allowed to say "BitBucket is a GPL-ed clone of BitKeeper"
> > because that implies that BitBucket does what BitKeeper does and nothing
> > could be farther from the truth.
> 
> Something is wrong, I agree with Larry.
> 
> He should instead say "A tool for accessing bitkeeper repositories" or
> "bitbucket compatible proprietary tools are available from .. " ;)

I can agree with that. At first though, he said not to use the name at
all, without regard to wording.

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