From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272124AbTGYOYg (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:24:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272125AbTGYOYg (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:24:36 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:21890 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272124AbTGYOYe (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:24:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 07:39:33 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Ga?l Le Mignot Cc: Larry McVoy , Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Switching to the OSL License, in a dual way. Message-ID: <20030725143933.GA13840@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Ga?l Le Mignot , Larry McVoy , Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030724215744.GA7777@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:56:34AM +0200, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote: > > > BK already provides more than enough in the way of > > interoperability, both on the way in and on the way out. It's > > trivial to get your data out of BK as well as your metadata. It's > > a small perl script to get all the info out and plop it into some > > other system, we're much better about that than any free or > > commercial system. > > And MS Word allows to export data in plain text or html. Which is a lossy export. Of course reverse engineering of Word is allowed, you didn't get all your data. You can get *all* of your data out of BK, by definition. BK can start with the data it exports and rebuild the revision history. So can you. So you are needlessly arguing. > This is exactly the same. As long as there is a data format or a > protocol involved, European laws allow users to reverse engineer it, > to be able to create another program using the same format and > protocols. Really? Show me that law please. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm