From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270563AbTGSXbh (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:31:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270562AbTGSXbh (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:31:37 -0400 Received: from smtp-out1.iol.cz ([194.228.2.86]:24724 "EHLO smtp-out1.iol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270564AbTGSXbR (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:31:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:45:50 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Alan Cox Cc: nick@snowman.net, Rik van Riel , Richard Stallman , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Bitkeeper Message-ID: <20030719234550.GA1198@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1058563709.19558.79.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1058563709.19558.79.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]