Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:46:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:46:47 -0400 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:10386 "EHLO mail.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:46:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:52:17 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Russell King , "David S. Miller" , Alan Cox , Larry McVoy , Ulrich Drepper , bcollins@debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BK MetaData License Problem? Message-ID: <20021006155217.Y29486@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Russell King , "David S. Miller" , Alan Cox , Larry McVoy , Ulrich Drepper , bcollins@debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 12:39:48PM -0700 X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1675 Lines: 34 On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [ 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). Yes, but you'd want to make sure that you stated that your license extended to the BK metadata. In our opinion, only you as the creator of the repository gets to make that rule but you certainly can, that's one of the reasons we put that clause in there. By the way, the way this code works in bk-3.0 is that it saves a md5sum or some sort of strong hash of the license in question and it will ask you only once, assuming you are using the same home directory. It will ask you again if the license changes, that's what the hash is for. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/