From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271792AbTGRUbc (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:31:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270382AbTGRUbc (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:31:32 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:51391 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270368AbTGRU3R (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:29:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:44:05 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Richard Stallman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bitkeeper Message-ID: <20030718204405.GA658@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Richard Stallman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: 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 I'm trying hard to stay out of this, I think Richard may be trolling, but I need to make sure that people understand that what Richard is suggesting is violation of our license and copyright. On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:51:36PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > I think it would be appropriate at this point to write a free client > that talks with Bitkeeper, and for Linux developers to start switching > to that from Bitkeeper. At that point, McVoy will face a hard choice: > if he carries out these threats, he risks alienating the community > that he hopes will market Bitkeeper for him. Our license states that you can't use BK if you are developing a similar system, i.e., a clone. Without using BK it's impossible to reverse engineer BK to create the clone. So your message seems to be saying "it would be appropriate at this point to violate the BitKeeper license in order to write a free client which talks with BitKeeper". Are you really instructing people to go out and violate our license? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm