On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adi Stav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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. > <snip> > > > Anyway, kernel people use it, so people probably don't care. > > > > Linus doesn't care, but Linus never had any ideological or even > <snip> > > > It bother /me/, though, especially as I can't see much commercial gain > > Larry Mcvoy can get by those restrictions. > <snip> > > Of course he gets commercial gain - companies who want to use BitKeeper and > don't want the "open logging" feature (and show me one manager who want balk > at the very idea of data about his internal development efforts circulating > on the internet) will be required to buy a license. if BitKeeper was free as > in GPL, then said manager wouldn't be required to purchase a license, and > some (or most ? or all ?) will not.
Actually, their license is basically "you can change anything you want, but the software has to pass some regression tests that include logging to our server". Why not take the approach of gnu to posix-compliance: Many programs are not posix-compliant, unless you set the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT . You could have an optional "--dont-log-with-main-server" switch wihtout or NO_LOGGING_TO_MAIN_SERVER environment variable. Just a silly thought. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= 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]
