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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
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To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed
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On Monday 14 February 2005 21:40, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:13:14PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > > The way some people are reading the license the price is even higher,
> > > they think it is a forever tainted license as it stands today.  I've had
> > > specific requests to clarify this part of the license.
> > > 
> > > So how would you suggest that we resolve it?  The protection we need is
> > > that people don't get to
> > 
> > How about just reversing it.  If you work on another scm you cannot use
> > _free_ bk for 1 year after you stop. 
> 
> Hi Ed, thanks for the thought.  We've discussed this idea before with
> some managers of open source developers and found that no matter which
> one we pick some people don't like it.  People tend to cluster up based on
> whether they value working on $SCM more or using BK more.  If they want to
> preserve the ability to move people to working on competing products then
> they would like the option you suggested.  If they are more interested
> in using BK then they would prefer the other way.  The people we spoke
> with were far more interested in the ability to move people onto BK when
> they needed to.
> 
> But it's a good idea and we'd certainly be willing to flip to your way
> on a case by case basis.

Thanks.  My though was that this was less restrictive as there is an option to
purchase a nonfree licence in there and sales are almost always a good thing.

<grin>
Ed
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