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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers
Date: 5 Mar 2002 15:14:19 -0800
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By author:    Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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> 
> IIRC, bitkeeper, is open source.  It just doesn't have a free license.  I
> could be wrong(I haven't checked).  If I am, someone will say so...
> 

A free license is a necessary, but not sufficient, requirement for
something to be Open Source.

	-hpa
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