Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:56:10 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Gateways (was Re: Fix for wrong OOM killer trigger?) |
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Larry McVoy wrote: > Nonsense. This isn't closed source issue at all because the issue is the > CVS gateway. You don't need source to write that gateway and you could > have (and recall that Linus said you should have) written the gateway > yourself, hosted it yourself, and maintained it yourself.
I was prepared to write such a gatway.
We discussed it, and found that the combination of BitKeeper license and BitMover's control over the kernel repository prevents it. This was the subject of a heated debate.
I believe that debate was the reason BitMover wrote and now host the BK->CVS gateway, which other gateways are built upon.
It's a brilliant solution, and thank you, I am glad of your work, but let's not pretend that a 3rd party is in a position to offer such a gateway.
(You need either the BK protocol, the right to run BK, or a copy of the BK repository files to extract data from, and none of these are available to a 3rd party who wants to write and support a BK->whatever gateway for the kernel tree. I asked; all 3 were refused).
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