Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261732AbUKADQ7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:16:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261731AbUKADQ7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:16:59 -0500 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.45]:63455 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261734AbUKADQx (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:16:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20041031234440.GA6842@work.bitmover.com> References: <20041028135348.GA18099@work.bitmover.com> <1098972379.3109.24.camel@gonzales> <20041028151004.GA3934@work.bitmover.com> <41827B89.4070809@hispalinux.es> <20041029173642.GA5318@work.bitmover.com> <20041031210323.GG5578@elf.ucw.cz> <20041031211436.GE27728@work.bitmover.com> <20041031212111.GF1430@elf.ucw.cz> <20041031213559.GF27728@work.bitmover.com> <20041031214617.GG1430@elf.ucw.cz> <20041031234440.GA6842@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <754B7EBC-2BB4-11D9-857E-000393ACC76E@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: James Bruce , Linux Kernel , Andrea Arcangeli , Pavel Machek , Xavier Bestel , Ram?n Rey Vicente , Linus Torvalds , Roman Zippel From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:16:44 -0500 To: Larry McVoy X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2205 Lines: 62 On Oct 31, 2004, at 18:44, Larry McVoy wrote: > Come on Pavel, you think I'm stupid enough to tell you that you can > touch > BK? No, I'm not. No, you can't. Under any circumstances. You've > long > since lost that priviledge and you aren't getting it back. So you are saying that at one point (X days ago) he could have written his own BK2CVS tool without an issue? I do not know for certain, but I will guess that Pavel has not done anything blatantly illegal or violated the BK license in any way you can prove. I am also guessing that he has not signed any additional contracts or EULAs with you. You also appear to be stating in this email that he may _not_ now write his own BK2CVS tool. What changed? (Aside from derogatory opinionated remarks in a public forum which, AFAIK, are not significant in any court of law) > You've got the BK2CVS tree, I suggest you use it. That's all you get > and > no amount of dancing around with my words will change that. You were stating earlier that you are not trying to trap people into BK, but these statements appear to be much to the contrary of that position. One could theorize that the "preferred form" for the kernel is a tar.gz or tar.bz2 file of the sources, and since you distribute through BK _all_ versions of the kernel, you must also provide a way to get the "preferred form" for any particular version. I realize that this is somewhat difficult, but if you are going to use contractual crap to restrict Pavel's rights to get at his BK data, then you probably ought to offer to send anybody a tar.gz or tar.bz2 of any version of the sources at any particular time. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM/CS/IT/U d- s++: a17 C++++>$ UB/L/X/*++++(+)>$ P+++(++++)>$ L++++(+++) E W++(+) N+++(++) o? K? w--- O? M++ V? PS+() PE+(-) Y+ PGP+++ t+(+++) 5 X R? tv-(--) b++++(++) DI+ D+ G e->++++$ h!*()>++$ r !y?(-) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ - 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/