On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 21:59 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > Claro que si. Para hacer lo de ingenieria reversa /tiene/ que haberlo > estado usando. Para ello (igual que en el caso de GPL!) la unica > opcion era que aceptara la licencia del caso.
Esto es algo que aparecio en groklaw hoy dia (<URL:http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050421023821174>). Me parece interesante de hacerlo notar, ya que aqui esta la declaracion del involucrado y no se diferencia de cosas que yo mismo y otra gente ha hecho antes para saber como opera un server de algo (correo, http y otros). Groklaw's stevem heard Tridge's speech today at the LCA 2005 conference, Australia's national Linux conference, and he has a report for us: This was taken from my memory of Dr. Andrew Tridgell's keynote at this years LCA2005 Conference. Essentially Tridge did *NOT* do anything that anyone could ever possibly ever take as breaking a BitKeeper licence, as far as I can see. How was it done? He, like any good sysadmin would, first off telnetted to the BitKeeper port on a BitKeeper server. $ telnet thunk.org 5000 WhooHoo! Connection! So, next obvious step that we *all* do is type in the obvious: help Back came a list of commands to manipulate the BitKeeper server and ask things of it. Well, according to Tridge, a bit of reading of the LKML (Linux Kernel Email List) shows that the "clone" command is the way to checkout someones source code repository. So Tridge's massive "reverse engineering" project came down to a single line of shell script: $ echo clone | nc thunk.org 5000 > e2fsprogs.dat Hey presto, Tridge has just checked out from a BitKeeper repository into the file e2fsprogs.dat. The audience was laughing and cheering Tridge on as he explained just what a Mountain had been made of this Molehill. And I mean made by both sides of the issue -- those who he said he was some Uber Reverse Engineering Wizard and those who claimed that he MUST have used a BK client. Funny report, isn't it? Anyway, now you know Tridge's side of the story. -- Marcos Ramirez A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
