Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...

Daniel Phillips
2002-04-22T18:04:48Z

On Monday 22 April 2002 19:52, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> (Linus CC removed)
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:44:43PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Focussed on BitKeeper. It's the license. Simple, we can all coexist happily,
> > and profit from each other's endeavors, but our little commons here should not
> > be carrying Bitkeeper ads.
>
> Should we remove all mention of .com email addresses too?
>
> On of the very few requirements of my job at mandrakesoft is to use
> a mandrakesoft.com email address... as advertisement. Many other
> email addresses are used similarly. reiserfs included _blatant_
> advertisements in printk, for the sponsors of the code. A ton of
> other code has similar advertisements, though not at
>
> Should we remove all advertisements from the kernel? A Big Penguin
> would probably object to the removal of this printk advertisement
> for Swansea:
>
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
>
> If the answer is no, then you are targetting BitKeeper specifically...

Excellent point. If the BitKeeper advertising in the kernel source were
held to that level, I would be satisfied.

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Daniel