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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] BK license change
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:29:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020422222922.GM3017@turbolinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020421095715.A10525@work.bitmover.com> <20020422143527.K18800@work.bitmover.com> <E16zPbZ-0001NE-00@starship>

On Apr 22, 2002  00:14 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Monday 22 April 2002 23:35, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > So that leaves a more selective approach.  We can add a clause that says
> > we reserve the right to insist you either
> > 
> >     a) maintain your changes in public within 90 days of making them, or
> 
> That's going beyond what the gpl requires.  Nobody needs to share their
> changes unless they distribute the binaries.

But according to the license under which they use BK, they _do_ need to
make them public.

> > If you have a better idea on how to shut down the abusers without scaring
> > the legit users, I'm all ears.
> 
> No need to play mall cop.

Isn't that you calling the kettle black? ;-)

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-21 16:57 [OFF TOPIC] BK license change Larry McVoy
2002-04-21 12:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-21 16:29 ` Greg KH
2002-04-22  7:33 ` Simon Fowler
2002-04-22 21:35 ` Larry McVoy
2002-04-21 22:14   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-22 22:29     ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-04-21 22:52       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-22 23:12         ` Doug Ledford
2002-04-21 23:34           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-22 22:22   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-04-22 22:52     ` Larry McVoy
2002-04-25 15:01   ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-27  9:30     ` Florian Weimer
2002-04-27 13:45       ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-04-27 20:34       ` Larry McVoy
2002-04-26  4:22         ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-29 19:34           ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-29 19:45             ` Larry McVoy
2002-04-30  5:36               ` Pavel Janík
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-27 18:13 Christoph Lameter
2002-04-27 18:25 ` Russell King
2002-04-27 18:30 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-27 21:50   ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-28 16:55     ` Richard Gooch

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