Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272130AbTGYOkz (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:40:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272132AbTGYOkz (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:40:55 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:25732 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272130AbTGYOkx (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:40:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 07:55:34 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Jesse Pollard Cc: Larry McVoy , Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way. Message-ID: <20030725145534.GB13840@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Jesse Pollard , Larry McVoy , Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030724215744.GA7777@work.bitmover.com> <03072508173301.16381@tabby> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03072508173301.16381@tabby> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1932 Lines: 41 On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:17:33AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2003 16:57, Larry McVoy wrote: > [snip > > > > In other words, reverse engineering is ok if the product doesn't > > provide access to your data, we do that already, poof, no reverse > > engineering allowed. So it's illegal to reverse engineer BK. > > Nonesense. If the business no longer has the licence to use BK (for > whatever reason) then it no longer has access to the data. Now to > get access to the data you must reverse engineer BK... Oh, I see, you violate our license, your license is revoked, and now you have the write to reverse engineer BK? Show me the law which says that is true. BK has a command that will take a BK tree and produce pure SCCS files, there is even a GNU SCCS clone so tell me again you need to go poking around in BK? This whole thread is nuts. First of all, there is no need to do so other than to try and piss us off. Second of all, it's completely unrealistic to think you can reverse engineer it and keep up with our advancements. > Even though the data is still ASCII, the interrelationships between the > parts of the data is still "data". And extracting/viewing that would > require the reverse enginnering. And those relationships are available from the command line, using BK commands. In other words, you're just trying to yank my chain. Give it a rest or join the rest of the wankers in my procmailrc. Think about that, one day you may need something from me and I'll never see your request, it will be languishing in /dev/null with the rest of wankers. -- --- 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/