From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Sourceforge CVS, was Re: [Dri-devel] radeon error
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jon Smirl wrote:
Having used CVS and BitKeeper, BitKeeper is way better.
I will just add a big "Amen, Brother!" to that.
Thanks, Linus. We certainly try to make BK be a lot better than CVS or anything else. If it wasn't I'd expect more flames about that than the license.
We may not be as polished as some Windows based whatever but BK is a tool designed by engineers for engineers. Our goal is to make you more productive, as much as that sounds like marketing drivel.
Yes, BitKeeper has license issues, and some people won't touch it.
Over time we have a plan to make this go away. The main reason that there have been license issues is that we had a goal to give the latest and greatest out for free, that's how we could help open source the most. All the other companies give you an old buggy version or a stripped down (no GUIs or whatever) version, etc. We really wanted to give our best out for free but that meant we had to protect our IP more than those other companies.
We've heard that people would rather have better licensing terms than more features so we've forked the tree and when the commercial version is sufficiently ahead of the free version we'll revise the license to be something that people like or at least can live with.
Speaking personally, that sounds great, especially if developers using the free & not-quite-so-free versions can work together seemlessly. Even a BK-lite seems like a big step forward from cvs.
Keith
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