Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

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BitKeeper has to
| do with licensing of the kernel, except to prove that Linus is a
pragmatist and
| willing to use a non-free-as-in-speech product when there really *is* no
| open-source competitor - and unlike the other source code management
systems
| that *do* compete with BitKeeper, Larry McVoy at least has the 'BKL'
for free
| use for open-source projects.

Still, this is a limitation -- I probably wouldn't use bitkeeper if I
ever started a project.  Note that I say "probably"...

And I can't imagine many people sticking to "free" Debian without having
a very good reason.  If it's being a purist, they would probably be
annoyed at Linus' choice of BitKeeper.  If it's being an open source
developer themself, I'd consider Linus to be an "open source developer"
- -- and I'd marvel that these "open source developers" wouldn't be
pragmatists themselves.

But anyhow, this is getting offtopic enough, and I don't care enough --
I don't use Debian, and I'd use non-free if I did.  I'll let the people
in charge work this out.
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