Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261524AbVBNSse (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:48:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261526AbVBNSsd (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:48:33 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.56]:32429 "EHLO ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261522AbVBNSr1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:47:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed From: Steven Rostedt To: Larry McVoy Cc: Russell Miller , Marcin Dalecki , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050214174932.GB8846@bitmover.com> References: <20050214020802.GA3047@bitmover.com> <20050214154015.GA8075@bitmover.com> <3586df11f3bb037ab4b0284109ff9c0a@dalecki.de> <200502140923.03155.rmiller@duskglow.com> <20050214174932.GB8846@bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Kihon Technologies Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:47:15 -0500 Message-Id: <1108406835.8413.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1651 Lines: 34 On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 09:49 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Monday 14 February 2005 09:14, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:23:03AM -0800, Russell Miller wrote: > > It is certainly Larry's choice to license his software any way he chooses. > > > > It is my choice whether or not to use it. > > Yup, it is. Always has been even for the kernel because of our hard > work to make sure of that. We respect your choices, please respect ours. I believe that Larry and Bitmover are fine with what they are doing. They have every right to license their product the way they want as long as they give it out for free (as in beer). The problem that many people here have is that Linus and company have chosen BK as their SCM for Linux. The effort of all those that disapprove of BK should not be directed at Larry, but at Linus and others to convince them that the BK license is not appropriate for Linux, and to find something else. If this is a problem because everything else that is Free Software is not capable for Linux then development should be done to what is out there to make it adequate to the Linux Kernel development needs. Even if this includes those that develop it not use BK. But this doesn't stop those that do use it in telling those that develop something else what they would like to have. No license can stop you from listing what you would like of a SCM. -- Steve - 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/