Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262446AbUJ1U3N (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:29:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262890AbUJ1U20 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:28:26 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:38308 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262446AbUJ1UXX (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:23:23 -0400 Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow From: Alan Cox To: Larry McVoy Cc: Xavier Bestel , James Bruce , Linus Torvalds , Roman Zippel , Andrea Arcangeli , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20041028151004.GA3934@work.bitmover.com> References: <20041025162022.GA27979@work.bitmover.com> <20041025164732.GE14325@dualathlon.random> <4180B9E9.3070801@andrew.cmu.edu> <20041028135348.GA18099@work.bitmover.com> <1098972379.3109.24.camel@gonzales> <20041028151004.GA3934@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1098991205.9557.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:20:08 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 990 Lines: 24 On Iau, 2004-10-28 at 16:10, Larry McVoy wrote: > "Fair use" != "reverse engineering" in any venue so far as I know. Reverse engineering is enshrined in EU law as a right (although this started due to abuse by car companies not for computing). While people jump up and down and point to that its not always clear you can do so for the purposes of cloning rather than interoperability. Ie its one thing to reverse engineer BK to make a BK->Subversion tool but quite another to reverse engineer it to reimplement BK (leaving aside that all the patch files are publically grabbable and every patch Linus sends goes out to a mailing list so it would be a rather hard work way of doing it) I don't use BK. It's not causing problems for me. Alan - 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/