From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra <lgcdutra@terra.com.br>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way.
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:10:28 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307261508400.10872-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030724215744.GA7777@work.bitmover.com>
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Larry McVoy wrote:
> A clone is illegal because you'd have to reverse engineer to do the
> clone and reverse engineering is allowed for the purpose of
> interoperability, not for the purpose of making a clone.
This is a good point to remember, especially since you
contradict it later on in your own mail.
Making a program to extract data from a bitkeeper
repository is fine. It is covered by this interoperability
clause.
What is arguably (not) fine is making a program that does
everything bitkeeper does and does it in the same way, ie.
creating a bitkeeper clone.
However, that has nothing to do with a program that can
extract data from a bitkeeper repository but quite clearly
isn't a bitkeeper clone...
--
Great minds drink alike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-26 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-24 8:40 Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way Dean McEwan
2003-07-24 8:58 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-24 9:46 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 18:06 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-24 20:02 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 21:05 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-24 21:57 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-24 22:24 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-25 9:56 ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-07-25 14:39 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-26 2:52 ` Matthias Andree
2003-07-26 3:18 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-25 13:17 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-25 14:55 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-25 15:15 ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-07-25 15:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-26 19:10 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2003-07-26 19:23 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-26 19:46 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-26 20:01 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-26 21:08 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-07-26 20:21 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-24 9:05 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-27 9:21 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-07-24 11:30 ` viro
2003-07-24 10:35 Samium Gromoff
2003-07-24 11:51 Dean McEwan
2003-07-24 22:25 ` Stefan Reinauer
2003-07-25 9:34 Samium Gromoff
2003-07-25 13:27 ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-07-25 15:33 John Bradford
2003-07-25 15:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-26 19:46 Hank Leininger
2003-07-26 20:20 John Bradford
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