Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:56:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:56:43 -0500 Received: from [195.39.17.254] ([195.39.17.254]:772 "EHLO Elf.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:56:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:41:46 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed *notrademarkhere* clone Message-ID: <20030306164146.GF2781@zaurus.ucw.cz> References: <200303020011.QAA13450@adam.yggdrasil.com> <3E615C38.7030609@pobox.com> <20030302014039.GC1364@dualathlon.random> <3E616224.6040003@pobox.com> <3E623B9A.8050405@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E623B9A.8050405@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1509 Lines: 49 Hi! > While people would certainly use it, I can't help but think that a BK > clone would damage other open source SCM efforts. I call this the > "SourceForge Syndrome": Where do I get pills for that one? :-) > Q. I found a problem/bug/annoyance, how do I solve it? > A. Clearly, a brand new sourceforge project is called for. > > My counter-question is, why not improve an _existing_ open source SCM > to read and write BitKeeper files? I of course thought about that (I'm not yet hit *that* hard by sf syndrome :-), but: a) I might extend cssc, but bitbucket is naturally layer *over* cssc, and cssc is GNU program (copyright assignment needed) and is C++. I do not feel like writing new code in C++, and I do not like their codingstyle. b) take something else, *merge cssc to it*, then add my stuff. Ouch. svn is out because of licensing, cvs is not powerfull enough, and I do not like arch. (I did not know abojt opencm, sorry). Ouch and this would mean fork, anyway, because developers of that project would probably not be happy about those copyrights (FSF!). c) so new sf project is indeed way to go :-(. I hope you understand now, Pavel -- Pavel Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need... - 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/