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Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: BK MetaData License Problem?
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[ Different issue, and slightly off-topic ]

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> until now the Linux kernel tree was distributed in a tarball that had a
> nice COPYING file in a very prominent spot. With BK the situation is
> different - and like i said in previous mails it's not BK's "fault", but
> BK's "effect" - and it's a situation that needs to be remedied, right?

If this is a concern, it actually appears that BK has the capability to
"enforce" a license, in that I coul dmake BK aware of the GPL and that
would cause BK to pop up a window saying "Do you agree to this license"  
before the first check-in by a person (the same way it asked you whether 
you wanted to allow openlogging).

Do people feel that would be a good idea? I actually dismissed it when 
Larry talked about it, because I felt people might take it as another "too 
much BK in your face", even though the license would be the _Linux_ 
license, not the BK one.

		Linus

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