Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:32:26 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: openbkweb-0.0 |
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:00:36AM +0200, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: > On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:11, Jamie Lokier wrote: > [...] > > [ Note that I won't agree to refrain from reverse engineering the > > network protocol, as the price of using BK for free. > > > > Chances are I'll never bother, but it's not something I'd willingly > > agree to not do, because I prefer to be not allowed to use BK than to > > be effectively bound by an eternal NDA. ] > > What makes you think the licence is something like an _eternal_ NDA? > > Larry, I've used bitkeeper for a few months to pull linus's and rik's trees > and export them for my own use until about a month ago. I've also tried > using it in a single user repository for contest (the benchmark). > > Last week, feeling tempted to dig into arch, I removed all the files from > the bitkeeper installation and I did a search-and-unlink of BitKeeper > directories, just in case. > > Do you intend to sue me if I ever submit a patch for cvs/subversion/whatever > (arch kind of sucks:-) or if I feel like starting my own scm project? (while > I think this would be ridiculous I'm not trying to bash you here, it's an > honest question regarding Jamie's comment above)
Nobody wins in a lawsuit, at least not at this level. I don't want to sue you, that's nuts.
If you continued use BK and were working on an SCM system, yeah, we'd kick up a fuss. Our position is that it was really hard to produce a system which doesn't suck and it is a lot easier to copy such a system than it is to invent one on your own. So we'd prefer you to figure it out on your own than copy what we have done. -- --- 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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