Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:42:20 -0500 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed BitKeeper clone |
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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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