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[Brian Behlendorf]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, John Cowan wrote:
> I am not an RCS/CVS expert, but it seems to me that it wouldn't be too
> hard to add a mode to download the original source plus forward deltas,
> SCCS-style.  This mode would meet the restrictions of the license:
> the original source is present, and the patches are merely aggregated
> with it, not incorporated into it.  At the receiving end, of course,
> they can be integrated.

If there's a way to manage the toolset to work around this, fine; but it
seems like there are lots of edge cases that become awkward.

> How is this so different from the NPL's treatment of Netscape as a
> privileged participant?  We didn't say that wasn't Open Source.

Privileged participation is fine.  I can fork Mozilla's code and start a
new development project around it if I want to, regardless of Netscape.

	Brian