Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263136AbUJ2IJv (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:09:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263135AbUJ2IJv (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:09:51 -0400 Received: from penta.pentaserver.com ([216.74.97.66]:55212 "EHLO penta.pentaserver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263136AbUJ2IJn (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 04:09:43 -0400 From: Manu Abraham Reply-To: manu@kromtek.com Organization: Kromtek Systems To: Larry McVoy Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:09:29 +0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Roman Zippel , Linus Torvalds , Andrea Arcangeli , Joe Perches , Paolo Ciarrocchi , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , akpm@osdl.org References: <20041028224534.GB29335@work.bitmover.com> In-Reply-To: <20041028224534.GB29335@work.bitmover.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410291209.30255.manu@kromtek.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - penta.pentaserver.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - kromtek.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1551 Lines: 44 On Fri October 29 2004 2:45 am, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:03:42PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > [complaints about the awful horrible evil BK2CVS tool] > > You > do not get to use BK metadata to do so either, those are also our rules. > The contents of the BK, ie the metadata is Free software, licensed under the GPL. Therefore i don't understand .. Isn't this then a violation of the GPL ? Isn't this something like M$ stating that you are the property of M$ because you are using one of their systems. Worser still ? Do you mean to say M$ owns all *.doc, *.xls files etc as an example... If so, then that is really bad .. > Free software, at least > some of it, is no more than a copy. > sarcasm ? Even the linux kernel is free software .. Isn't this is just like M$ marketing talk ? > It's my claim that I value free software even *more* than you do. Why? It's a contradiction, considering the earlier two statements. I agree to the fact that BK has made Kernel development faster, which has therefore helped. I'm not a BK user. I download the tarballs, but the statements by Mr. Larry has shaken me a bit. As per the statements by Mr. Larry, what i understood is that the BK metadata belongs to Mr. Larry legally as per the US rules and regulations. Manu > - 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/