Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261775AbVBOQel (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:34:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261781AbVBOQel (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:34:41 -0500 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([62.73.5.179]:38160 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261775AbVBOQej (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:34:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:34:32 +0100 From: Olivier Galibert To: lm@bitmover.com, David Lang , Gerold Jury , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jeff Sipek , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed Message-ID: <20050215163432.GA75117@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , lm@bitmover.com, David Lang , Gerold Jury , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jeff Sipek , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz References: <20050214020802.GA3047@bitmover.com> <20050214194428.GC8763@merlin.emma.line.org> <20050214200544.GC16029@bitmover.com> <200502142324.43269.gjury@inode.at> <20050214225704.GD16029@bitmover.com> <20050215000343.GF16029@bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050215000343.GF16029@bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1274 Lines: 32 On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:03:43PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > And how does the CVS gateway not provide this today? The CVS gateway does not reach the rest of bkbits.net. For instance the ipw2200 tree since they miss some of the files in their tarball distribution. > And long ago I offered what I > called the tarball + patch server with an open source client for all > trees on bkbits.net Funnily enough the NWL probably isn't open-source because of the first clause. But frankly, it's irrelevant. > People didn't seem interested and I came with the conclusion, rightly or > wrongly, that the vast majority of the people who did real work didn't > care about the license and the noisy people just wanted to pick a fight. I read your mail as "you'll get that if and only the usual band stops whining", which obviously won't happen. Maybe I was wrong, I only know that at that point I can't get useful files from free projects hosted on bkbits if they're not the kernel itself. Your extension would indeed help. OG. - 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/