The born of git and mercurial was not because license changes in BitKeeper, but because someone tried to reverse engineer the BK protocol, that was against the license and authors of BitKeeper said that Linux Kernel violated the license and they no longer can use the product.
The born of git and mercurial was not because license changes in BitKeeper, but because someone tried to reverse engineer the BK protocol, that was against the license and authors of BitKeeper said that Linux Kernel violated the license and they no longer can use the product.
There is great talk at CodeMash (available on Plural Sight for free)
A Brief History of Version Control: CodeMash.