> one of the Linux developers reverse engineered the protocol, breaking the licensing terms
Tridge never accepted the license terms of BitKeeper and re-implemented client libraries only by observing black box behaviour of the server, so at no point did he break the terms of the license. He also told Linus what he was doing and asked, "how do you think [Larry McVoy] will react?". Linus said he thought it would be okay.
Tridge never accepted the license terms of BitKeeper and re-implemented client libraries only by observing black box behaviour of the server, so at no point did he break the terms of the license. He also told Linus what he was doing and asked, "how do you think [Larry McVoy] will react?". Linus said he thought it would be okay.
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