Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271891AbTGRVhL (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:37:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270373AbTGRVhK (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:37:10 -0400 Received: from warden3-p.diginsite.com ([208.147.64.186]:44281 "HELO warden3.diginsite.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271993AbTGRVge (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:36:34 -0400 From: David Lang To: Alan Cox Cc: Larry McVoy , Richard Stallman , Linux Kernel Mailing List Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Bitkeeper In-Reply-To: <1058563409.19511.74.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1599 Lines: 37 actually I think that your case for ignoring the 'no reverse engineering' would be far better if you paid for a bitkeeper license, but when you are being allowed to use it for free on the condition that you use it specific ways (no reverse engineering and public access to changeset info) saying that you will eliminate complying with those terms but still get to use it for free isn't being very reasonable. David Lang On 18 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > Date: 18 Jul 2003 22:23:30 +0100 > From: Alan Cox > To: Larry McVoy > Cc: Richard Stallman , > Linux Kernel Mailing List > Subject: Re: Bitkeeper > > On Gwe, 2003-07-18 at 21:44, Larry McVoy wrote: > > I'm trying hard to stay out of this, I think Richard may be trolling, > > but I need to make sure that people understand that what Richard is > > suggesting is violation of our license and copyright. > > Actually your license is simply irrelevant in most of thre world. You > aren't allowed to forbid reverse engineering for interoperability. > > - > 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/ > - 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/