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Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mer, 2004-10-27 at 21:56, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Linus, what happened to the early promises, that the data wouldn't be 
> locked into bk? Is the massively reduced data set in the cvs repository 
> really all we ever get out of it again?

The daily CVS snapshots seem to solve most of that. Yes BK's licensing
model isn't free software friendly, yes its a PITA. With the CVS
snapshots nobody is forcing your hand, its not encrypted and locked away
behind a DRM system.

Alan

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