From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271428AbTGQNxp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:53:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271431AbTGQNxp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:53:45 -0400 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:44931 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271428AbTGQNxn (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:53:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:17:49 +0100 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200307171417.h6HEHn85002476@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robro@frink.nuigalway.ie Subject: Re: BK Licence: Protocols and Research Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > * Sean Neakums [030717 13:12]: > > [snip] > > > > I suggest you hire an attorney. > > That costs lotsa money. Money I can't really afford to pay. > > > * Jens Axboe [030717 13:32]: > > Then keep it away from lkml? Why does everybody think that BK > > discussions belong here?! News flash: they don't! > > > I detect a note of anger in that post. Anger leads to hate, and hate > leads to the dark side. We'd hate to see linux developers lost to the > dark side. Besides I'm usually fairly sceptical about what I hear on the > news. > > * Alan Cox: > > > Would previous activity in the area of developing a product which > > > contains substantially similary features to Bitkeeper preclude users > > > from > > > using the Free Bitkeeper software? > > > Hire a lawyer or talk to the company selling it. This list is definitely > > the wrong place to ask about it. > > -> Hire a lawyer: > See reply to Sean Neakums above. > > -> Talk to Company selling it: > Reply would almost certainly be extremely biased. > > -> Wrong Place: > Okay maybe for that small part of the message, but that small > part was added for, and only for completeness, but I thought I > dealt with the possibility of this being the wrong place at the > end of my last post. Having that said thanks to you, and Sean > for being polite in your reply. > > Talking about this to the company selling bitkeeper would almost > certainly yield biased feedback, and here is where many people > have cross-examined the licence from top to bottom, and who've > investigated every little nook and crannie of the Licence(and please > don't bother telling me you aren't lawyers). 1. Flamewars about BitKeeper tend to generate a lot of traffic. 2. vger.kernel.org has run out of /var/tmp space twice recently, which has caused list traffic to get lost. _Please_ take this off LKML. John.