Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner+willy=40w.ods.org@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id <S267909AbTBRRb2>; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:31:28 -0500
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org
	id <S267910AbTBRRb2>; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:31:28 -0500
Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:25614 "EHLO
	phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP
	id <S267909AbTBRRb1>; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:31:27 -0500
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:41:25 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, lm@bitmover.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: openbkweb-0.0
Message-ID: <20030218174125.C19228@infradead.org>
Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Henning Schmiedehausen <hps@intermeta.de>, lm@bitmover.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
References: <20030213220522.GA11214@work.bitmover.com> <20030213225621.GA17508@bjl1.jlokier.co.uk> <20030214203151.GL20159@fs.tum.de> <20030214234517.GA4333@bjl1.jlokier.co.uk> <20030214235724.GA24139@work.bitmover.com> <b2l9d1$v55$3@tangens.hometree.net> <20030215115022.B18281@infradead.org> <b2lang$vf$1@tangens.hometree.net> <20030215165834.A21412@infradead.org> <1045427175.1477.47.camel@henning-pc.hutweide.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i
In-Reply-To: <1045427175.1477.47.camel@henning-pc.hutweide.de>; from hps@intermeta.de on Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:26:15PM +0100
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 934
Lines: 19

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:26:15PM +0100, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote:
> The problem I have is, that at some point the BK company might be forced
> to change the rules. Maybe Larry isn't in charge anymore. Maybe he needs
> money. Maybe at some point kernel development _relies_ on BK. What if BK
> decides that there are no more free licenses from this day on? 

Then we'll have to go back to old-style no-SCM releases. 

> I have a problem with a core product of the free software movement

Who said Linux is part of the Free Software Movement?  Remember that Linus
is no fanatical GNU monk, unless I got something completly wrong he even
writes propritary software in his daytime job..

-
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/