Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261416AbVDIXeC (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:34:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261417AbVDIXeC (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:34:02 -0400 Received: from adsl-69-233-54-142.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([69.233.54.142]:41736 "EHLO bastard.smallmerchant.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261416AbVDIXb5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:31:57 -0400 Message-ID: <425865BC.6090006@tupshin.com> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:31:08 -0700 From: Tupshin Harper User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Cc: Roman Zippel , Linus Torvalds , Andrea Arcangeli , Martin Pool , David Lang Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. References: <20050406193911.GA11659@stingr.stingr.net> <20050407014727.GA17970@havoc.gtf.org> <1112852302.29544.75.camel@hope> <1112939769.29544.161.camel@hope> <20050408083839.GC3957@opteron.random> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1166 Lines: 24 Roman Zippel wrote: >It seems you exported the complete parent information and this is exactly >the "nitty-gritty" I was "whining" about and which is not available via >bkcvs or bkweb and it's the most crucial information to make the bk data >useful outside of bk. Larry was previously very clear about this that he >considers this proprietary bk meta data and anyone attempting to export >this information is in violation with the free bk licence, so you indeed >just took the important parts and this is/was explicitly verboten for >normal bk users. > > Yes, this is exactly the information that would be necessary to create a general interop tool between bk and darcs|arch|monotone, and is the fundamental objection I and others have had to open source projects using BK. Is Bitmover willing to grant a special dispensation to allow a lossless conversion of the linux history to another format? -Tupshin - 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/