Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261744AbVBICFk (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:05:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261745AbVBICFk (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:05:40 -0500 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:14062 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261744AbVBICFg (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:05:36 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:05:18 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: "Theodore Ts'o" cc: Larry McVoy , Stelian Pop , Francois Romieu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto In-Reply-To: <20050209000733.GA6308@thunk.org> Message-ID: References: <20050204201157.GN27707@bitmover.com> <20050204214015.GF5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> <20050204233153.GA28731@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20050205193848.GH5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> <20050205233841.GA20875@bitmover.com> <20050208154343.GH3537@crusoe.alcove-fr> <20050208155845.GB14505@bitmover.com> <20050208181634.GA20261@bitmover.com> <20050209000733.GA6308@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1362 Lines: 29 Hi, On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I don't know how many years it was before people decided to > give up on the emacs vs. vi wars, but can we please put a more hasty > end to the bk license flamewars? Many thanks, It's not really the same, if it would be just about personal preferences, I would be the first to shut up (unless someone buys the beer :) ). If people want to use bk because it does the job for them, I'm happy for them. The current problem is more serious and I want that bk users to understand that. A large part of kernel history is currently practically locked into bk. bk isn't doing what I need, so naturally I'm looking for alternatives, but I don't have the freedom to take my data and try it with some other tool. Was that really part of the deal when bk was introduced that I'm denied of this freedom? If bk users think this alright, I'd really like to hear from them how this fits into a free software project. With every other free software project it's possible to just take the data and import into something else, why isn't this possible with Linux? bye, Roman - 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/