Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:45:50 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Bitkeeper |
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Hi!
> > How about all of you take a much nicer tilt on this, and ask McVoy (who's > > already giveing you the software free) his price to GPL bitkeeper. > > Make Larry a clear business case and I'm sure he will. However even > though I don't agree with Larry on a lot of things I do agree that there > isn't a sane case for him to GPL that software. > > Larry actually had exactly these and related discussions before he ever > went to Linus and others with the arrangement he proposed about free if > your logs are public. > > If you want to make something replace bitkeeper make it better. When > Larry has customers forcing him to write bk to [whatever] convertors > you've won.
Well, we already made him write bk to CVS convertor ;-))))))))).
Pavel
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