On Monday 14 February 2005 21:40, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:13:14PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > The way some people are reading the license the price is even higher, > > > they think it is a forever tainted license as it stands today. I've had > > > specific requests to clarify this part of the license. > > > > > > So how would you suggest that we resolve it? The protection we need is > > > that people don't get to > > > > How about just reversing it. If you work on another scm you cannot use > > _free_ bk for 1 year after you stop. > > Hi Ed, thanks for the thought. We've discussed this idea before with > some managers of open source developers and found that no matter which > one we pick some people don't like it. People tend to cluster up based on > whether they value working on $SCM more or using BK more. If they want to > preserve the ability to move people to working on competing products then > they would like the option you suggested. If they are more interested > in using BK then they would prefer the other way. The people we spoke > with were far more interested in the ability to move people onto BK when > they needed to. > > But it's a good idea and we'd certainly be willing to flip to your way > on a case by case basis.
Thanks. My though was that this was less restrictive as there is an option to purchase a nonfree licence in there and sales are almost always a good thing. <grin> Ed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
