Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree

Jonathan A. George
2002-04-22T21:56:57Z

Jeff Garzik wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:37:19PM -0500, Jonathan A. George wrote:
>
>
>>The BK documentation constitutes an implicit advertisement and
>>endorsement of a product with a license which to many developers
>>violates the spirit of open source software.
>>
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>>The majority of the "silently seething" developers, I imagine, are only
>>gonna be satisfied when (a) BitKeeper is GPL'd or (b) Linus stops using
>>BitKeeper. Both of these seem very remote possibilities at present.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
Pax. I think that Rik made a good point RE bluetooth support, and
obviously no one with cache in the kernel community cares enough about
the non-free implications of using BK (an admittedly good tool) to keep
the kernel source free of such endorsements. In conceding I appreciate
but disagree with your position. Oh, and of course Al showed his ass on
your behalf thus proving that intelligence and politeness are not related.

Respectfully,
Jonathan