Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed BitKeeper clone

From: Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 11:42:20 EST


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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