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[Paul R]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:29:12 +0200, Jesper Noehr <jesper at noehr.org> said:

Jesper> Hosting isn't free. There's really no magic to the site,
Jesper> anyway.
> --
Jesper> Let me clarify: Our servers are hosted in a datacenter, and we
Jesper> pay for that out of our own pockets. That's not free. Hosting
Jesper> *with* us is free :-)

GPL v2 and v3 apply whenever program bits are distributed. BitBucket,
being an hosted service, can't be *itself* "open-source" or
"closed-source". The code behind the scene, itself, could be licenced
*if it were distributed in any way*. But AFAIK, nobody here own a copy
of this software, except the copyright owners themselves.

So, Jesper, if I'm right BitBucket provides a service of mercurial
hosting, free of charge for a certain category of projects, paid for
other categories, but the software you developed to get this service
running is kept for your service only and not distributed in any way.

So maybe you can develop on : "Why do you beleive your incomes are
more guaranteed if you don't share the program ?"



-- 
  Paul