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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:53:01 -0500
From: "Jonathan A. George" <JGeorge@greshamstorage.com>
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To: Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree
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Jeff Garzik wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:37:19PM -0500, Jonathan A. George wrote:
>  
>
>>The BK documentation constitutes an implicit advertisement and 
>>endorsement of a product with a license which to many developers 
>>violates the spirit of open source software.
>>
<snip>

>>The majority of the "silently seething" developers, I imagine, are only
>>gonna be satisfied when (a) BitKeeper is GPL'd or (b) Linus stops using
>>BitKeeper.  Both of these seem very remote possibilities at present.
>>
>>	Jeff
>>
Pax.  I think that Rik made a good point RE bluetooth support, and 
obviously no one with cache  in the kernel community cares enough about 
the non-free implications of using BK (an admittedly good tool) to keep 
the kernel source free of such endorsements.  In conceding I appreciate 
but disagree with your position.  Oh, and of course Al showed his ass on 
your behalf thus proving that intelligence and politeness are not related.

Respectfully,
Jonathan

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