Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote:
> Why? I understood that using BitKeeper for free for Open Source
> projects is allowed. (but IANAL).
> It is available (on many platforms). It works great. Once you use
> changesets you'll never want to go back to cvs.
There is a world of a difference between being free (of charge) for open
source projects and being open source itself.
> Producing an Open Source product does not mean that all tools are
> Open Source. Windows isn't and Postgresql is going to support
> windows.
There is also a big difference between supporting some proprietary
software and making proprietary software a de facto requirement for
participating in the development effort.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/