>On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:40:56AM -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
>> Ask Richard if GCC was ever initially bootstrapped using a non-GPL
>> compiler suite.
>Ah, but that's the point!
>The bitkeeper license won't allow you to bootstrap a competing project
>using bitkeeper. If the same clauses existed in the licenses of these
>commercial compilers, we wouldn't have GCC.
WRONG!
IT DOES. YOU JUST HAVE TO BUY BK. Same as RMS might have to buy the
compiler he used to bootstrap gcc (Or MIT did buy it).
There is no clause where Larry said "You might not use bk at all to write
SCM software". That's why I asked about "free beer" a while ago.
Regards
Henning
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