Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:45:32 -0500 (EST) | From | linux-os <> | Subject | Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed |
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, kernel wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:56, Larry McVoy wrote: > >> All we are trying to do is >> >> 1. Provide the open source community with a useful tool. >> 2. Prevent that from turning into the open source community >> creating a clone of our tool. >> > > lol > > > >> I agree that this sucks, having a license that restricts your creativity >> is very annoying. On the other hand, you don't have to agree to it. > > > Just catching up on this thread. I guess I'm ultimately surprised that > the developers here don't create a system *they* like with *their* > knowledge and skillsets. > > With all of the complaining about BK you'd think there'd be an equal > alternative. > > For everyone not liking Larry nor BK, why don't you use that as > inspiration to develop together a better app with terms more agreeable? > Surely that would put a bit of vinegar in his p*ss, wouldn't it? > > -fd
I have two questions for Larry.
(1) If I use BK for company source-code development (purchased product, I didn't buy it, the company did and they require me to use it for my work) and I go to work for another company that also uses BK, your license says I can't use BK at the other company, which means that I can't work there.
This is unlawful. How do you intend to enforce this?
(2) If I use BK and I decide that I don't want to do business with you or the courts say that I have to return the software, will my source-code still be usable with, perhaps CVS? In other words do I need BK to retrieve my company's intellectual property?
Note that there is a little company (was a big company until the lawsuit), that used VOBS (container files) to store source- code. Seems that when the license expired, the users couldn't get their source code out. There was a lawsuit. Company lost (of course). Seems you can't hold somebody's intellectual property for ransom, at least in the United States.
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