On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:20:37PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > BTW: there is a little "non-free" license issue with BitKeeper. From what > I understand, the license of BitKeeper is basicaly a free license, but > requires that you preserve one feature: logging to a certain main > reposirtory. I wasn't able to figure out what happens if your system is > not connected to the internet (or, OTOH, if it is maliciously tricked to > believe that this main server is unavailable). > > Anyway, kernel people use it, so people probably don't care.
Linus doesn't care, but Linus never had any ideological or even practical issues with proprietary software. But a lot of other people do have problems; for instance, Alan Cox vowed never to use it for as long as it's not Free Software. Linus replied that if he ever switches to BitKeeper (that was a few years ago) he will not make anyone else to use it too and will continue to accept patches by email in addition to BitKeeper. It bother /me/, though, especially as I can't see much commercial gain Larry Mcvoy can get by those restrictions. If there was a big cryout over it he might have relaxed the terms, but it looks like there's not going to be. Even RMS hasn't issued a statement. Oh well. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
