Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:14:10 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: RFC - tarball/patch server in BitKeeper |
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:02:57PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:44:52PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > all. It's our tool and the use of our tool to export information how the > > is the web your tool too?
The web isn't a tool and it certainly isn't our tool. The web server on bkbits.net is our tool, that's BitKeeper serving up the web pages directly.
> in your previous email you said the information is available via bkbits > web. But in an older email you said if we would use the web to fetch > information you would shut it down (for whatever reason, not relevant > for this email). Please clarify this single point: is the "web" a tool > we can use to fetch information?
I said I'd shut it down if you melted down the T1 line. We have dual T1 lines and rate limited them on both ends so that problem is gone.
You can grab all the patches you want from bkbits.net until you start using those patches to populate another SCM system because at that point you are using BK in violation of the BK license.
Tupshin wants both the patches and all the details of how the patches have been put together. I know why he wants it, it's a ton of useful test data if what you are doing is building a clone of BitKeeper, and that's exactly why he can't have all the information he wants. It's disingenuous of him to pretend it is a freedom of speech issue, but I think it's obvious to everyone what is going on here. If he was actually a kernel developer using BK he'd be asking us to reduce the amount of information contained in BitKeeper so that it ran faster which is what Linus wants us to do. This is all about someone trying to circumvent our license, not about some valuable information that BK is losing or hiding. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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/
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