From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 07:00:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 07:00:40 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:5517 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 07:00:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 03:59:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20021006.035934.106436540.davem@redhat.com> To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, lm@bitmover.com, drepper@redhat.com, bcollins@debian.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New BK License Problem? From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: References: <1033861827.4441.31.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:04:39 +0200 (CEST) i'm also a bit worried about the legal status of commit messages posted via bkbits. Are they GPL-ed automatically, can we just take them and put them into a free-BK type server? We already have one precedent of a business entity abusing a free OS project and then suing it (and winning the suit), hindering the free OS's development for years. Larry has stated many times over that he doesn't own our bits. That is why once you extract content from the repository into some other form (a patch with the change logs prepended, for example) he doesn't care what you do with it. He even said this twice today.