Re: Bitkeeper

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: nick@snowman.net, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:45:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030719234550.GA1198@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1058563709.19558.79.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

Hi!

> > How about all of you take a much nicer tilt on this, and ask McVoy (who's
> > already giveing you the software free) his price to GPL bitkeeper.
> 
> Make Larry a clear business case and I'm sure he will. However even
> though I don't agree with Larry on a lot of things I do agree that there
> isn't a sane case for him to GPL that software.
> 
> Larry actually had exactly these and related discussions before he ever
> went to Linus and others with the arrangement he proposed about free if
> your logs are public.
> 
> If you want to make something replace bitkeeper make it better. When
> Larry has customers forcing him to write bk to [whatever] convertors
> you've won. 

Well, we already made him write bk to CVS convertor ;-))))))))).

								Pavel

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