Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 18:14:19 EST


Followup to: <20020305230143.GB5538@matchmail.com>
By author: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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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