BitMover still holds all the copyright, and have all the developers.  They obviously <i>wanted</i> 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&#x27;t take development proprietary again?  Sure, the community could fork the latest free version, but there <i>isn’t</i> a free development community for BitKeeper – they’re all internal to BitMover.