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BitKeeper, the inspiration behind
Git and Mercurial, has been released under the Apache 2.0 License.
Larry McVoy is answering
questions on Hacker News, posting as ‘luckydude’. In one comment he
says:
“Git/Github has all the market share. Trying to compete with that
just proved to be too hard. So rather than wait until we were about to turn
out the lights, we decided to open source it while we still had money in
the bank and see what happens. We’ve got about 2 years of money and we’re
trying to build up some additional stuff that we can charge for. We’re also
open to being doing work for pay to add whatever it is that some company
wants to BK, that’s more or less what we’ve been doing for the last 18
years. Will it work? No idea. We have a couple of years to find out. If
nothing pans out, open sourcing it seemed like a better answer than selling
it off.” (Thanks to Josh Triplett)