Comment by teddyh

BitMover still holds all the copyright, and have all the developers. They obviously wanted to keep BitKeeper proprietary, and are only doing it now when facing irrelevance in the marketplace. If BitKeeper becomes popular again, who’s to say they won't take development proprietary again? Sure, the community could fork the latest free version, but there isn’t a free development community for BitKeeper – they’re all internal to BitMover.