Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263751AbTKRSmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:42:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263762AbTKRSmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:42:14 -0500 Received: from ipcop.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.15]:37613 "EHLO work.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263751AbTKRSmK (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:42:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:42:00 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Ben Collins Cc: Larry McVoy , Sven Dowideit , Andrew Walrond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air Message-ID: <20031118184200.GA13966@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Ben Collins , Larry McVoy , Sven Dowideit , Andrew Walrond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200311141624.32108.andrew@walrond.org> <20031114164640.GA1618@work.bitmover.com> <200311141734.57122.andrew@walrond.org> <20031114174303.GC32466@work.bitmover.com> <1068959565.889.5.camel@sven> <20031118153054.GB10584@work.bitmover.com> <20031118183058.GS476@phunnypharm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031118183058.GS476@phunnypharm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1755 Lines: 33 On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:30:58PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > Just to be clear, what we are talking about is a free client which talks to > > a modified BK server. The client has the ability to > > I just wanted to be clear on what you meant by "free". Is that free as > in binary with less restrictive license than the current bk client, or > "free" as in includes the source under the GPL? If the latter, you can > bet your ass I'd use it. If the former, it would allow me to use it, but > I can't guarantee I would. It would be free as in w/ source, probably BSD rather than GPL but some license you'd like. About the only thing we'd need to worry about is our commercial customers taking this and using it as a way to not pay for some seats so there is some chance that we'd want to put in some hook there, I'd have to think about that before promising anything. I'm curious as to why you would think this is better than the CVS gateway. The CVS gateway is actually a really nice thing. The whiners think we have somehow hamstrung the data in the gateway but that's only because they haven't looked at the data, if they had done a careful comparison then they'd know it's all in there. So what's the attraction? Having a client that will work with any BK server? Do you realize that the client is just a way to get at the head? And tagged releases? It doesn't have 1/10th the functionality of BK itself. -- --- 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/