From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270588AbTGTAPP (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:15:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270589AbTGTAPP (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:15:15 -0400 Received: from mithril.c-zone.net ([63.172.74.235]:51468 "EHLO mail.c-zone.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270588AbTGTANM (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:13:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3F19E241.6030603@c-zone.net> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:28:49 -0700 From: jiho@c-zone.net Organization: Kidding of Course User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Bitkeeper References: <20030718204405.GA658@work.bitmover.com> <20030718222702.GC658@work.bitmover.com> <20030719204219.GG7977@fs.tum.de> <20030719215740.GD24197@work.bitmover.com> <20030719222838.GB6942@fs.tum.de> <20030719223956.GG24197@work.bitmover.com> <20030719234519.GC6942@fs.tum.de> <20030720000232.GA28055@work.bitmover.com> In-Reply-To: <20030720000232.GA28055@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: > Let's try and simplify this because having a legal discussion is pointless. > Our position is that we gave something out for free with an understanding > that you wouldn't reverse engineer it. Regardless of your legal rights or > lack thereof, should you attempt to reverse engineer BK we'll simply stop > giving BK out for free. See? Simple. Now that *is* legal, and reasonable (in the legal sense) as well. -- Jim Howard