Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271424AbTGQN1A (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:27:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271425AbTGQN1A (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:27:00 -0400 Received: from frink.nuigalway.ie ([140.203.56.30]:64951 "EHLO frink.nuigalway.ie") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271424AbTGQN04 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:26:56 -0400 From: Rory Browne Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:39:24 +0100 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BK Licence: Protocols and Research Message-ID: <20030717133924.GA25455@zion.nuigalway.ie> References: <20030717120505.GA22304@zion.nuigalway.ie> <20030717123514.GP833@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030717123514.GP833@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-URL: http://student.nuigalway.ie Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1952 Lines: 53 * Sean Neakums [030717 13:12]: > [snip] > > I suggest you hire an attorney. That costs lotsa money. Money I can't really afford to pay. * Jens Axboe [030717 13:32]: > Then keep it away from lkml? Why does everybody think that BK > discussions belong here?! News flash: they don't! > I detect a note of anger in that post. Anger leads to hate, and hate leads to the dark side. We'd hate to see linux developers lost to the dark side. Besides I'm usually fairly sceptical about what I hear on the news. * Alan Cox: > > Would previous activity in the area of developing a product which > > contains substantially similary features to Bitkeeper preclude users > > from > > using the Free Bitkeeper software? > Hire a lawyer or talk to the company selling it. This list is definitely > the wrong place to ask about it. -> Hire a lawyer: See reply to Sean Neakums above. -> Talk to Company selling it: Reply would almost certainly be extremely biased. -> Wrong Place: Okay maybe for that small part of the message, but that small part was added for, and only for completeness, but I thought I dealt with the possibility of this being the wrong place at the end of my last post. Having that said thanks to you, and Sean for being polite in your reply. Talking about this to the company selling bitkeeper would almost certainly yield biased feedback, and here is where many people have cross-examined the licence from top to bottom, and who've investigated every little nook and crannie of the Licence(and please don't bother telling me you aren't lawyers). Regards Rory - 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/