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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:04:16 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bitkeeper cygwin messed up cygwin terminal setting for tcsh, lynx: dumb terminal?
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On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:52:00AM +1000, robertc wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
>> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Ralf Hauser
>> Sent: Friday, 7 June 2002 6:01 PM
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: bitkeeper cygwin messed up cygwin terminal setting 
>> for tcsh, lynx: dumb terminal?
>> 
>> 
>> When I downloaded bitkeeper, it installed a stripped-down (no 
>> clue whether
>> it was the most recent) version of cygwin on top of the version I had
>> already installed.
>
>I thought bitkeeper was proprietary. Whats the deal with them installing
>cygwin?

I installed bitkeeper a while ago.  They seem to be circumventing the GPL
nicely for the most part.  The one exception that I could see was that they
distribute patch.exe without the corresponding binary AFAICT.

IIRC, their installation actually runs a cygwin install.  Kinda cheesy, I
think, but apparently not illegal.

cgf

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