From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 02:53:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 02:53:46 -0500 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:40210 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 02:53:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3E630CD9.9010906@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:05:45 +0100 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Pavel_Jan=EDk?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone References: <20030226200208.GA392@elf.ucw.cz> <20030301183929.A31305@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Janík wrote: > E.g. Linus and other people exercising > "free" KitBeeper license now can not develop SCM software even if they want > to. I think this is really bad for their freedom. I wouldn't worry. Linus can develop any SCM software he want to, he merely have to drop bitkeeper first if he do. There is no freedom problem here. His current use of bitkeeper simply means he isn't into developing scm systems right now. Which probably is a good thing. Helge Hafting