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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new
To: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:39:09 +0100 (BST)
Cc: rms@gnu.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20021019161201.A26017@work.bitmover.com> from "Larry McVoy" at Oct 19, 2002 04:12:01 PM
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Larry,

I visited:

http://www.bitkeeper.com/

clicked on products, then clicked on downloads & status, and then
clicked on the link to the free use license, which links to:

http://www.bitkeeper.com/Sales.Licensing.Free.html

Presumably this can be considered a typical way to navigate through
the site.

The license I was presented with was the BitKeeper License version
1.37, 02/18/02.  This does not include the clause about the license
being unavailable to people who are developing a competing product to
Bitkeeper.

I pointed this out to you in a private E-Mail, but I didn't receive a
response - I think it is very confusing for people to believe that
they are licensed to use the product, only to later be told that they
are not.

John.