Do I have to buy a license to use BK for kernel development?

Do I have to buy a license to use BK for kernel development?

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi all.

I've made one or two attempts at beginning to use BK for my kernel
development work, but each time I've been stuck by the licensing code. I
use it for a little while, and then get a message about not being
allowed to commit because of logging (or something to that effect). Can
someone give me info on how to set up BK so that you don't get these
issues? (I'm assuming I don't need to buy it to use it for kernel
development). I should add that I'm doing 99% of my work disconnected
from the internet.

Can I also suggest that info on this be added to Documentation/BK-Usage?

Thanks in advance and regards,

Nigel
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Christ died for the ungodly.
	-- Romans 5:6, NIV.

Re: Do I have to buy a license to use BK for kernel development?

[Larry McVoy]

> I've made one or two attempts at beginning to use BK for my kernel
> development work, but each time I've been stuck by the licensing code. I
> use it for a little while, and then get a message about not being
> allowed to commit because of logging (or something to that effect). Can
> someone give me info on how to set up BK so that you don't get these
> issues? (I'm assuming I don't need to buy it to use it for kernel
> development). I should add that I'm doing 99% of my work disconnected
> from the internet.

Read the license.  The free use requires that you connect periodically to 
log what it is you are doing.  Those are the terms of use.  If that doesn't
work for you there is the CVS gateway and the SVN gateway.

If you are having problems with BK you might try support@bitmover.com
or bitkeeper-users@bitmover.com.
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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm

Re: Do I have to buy a license to use BK for kernel development?

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

I did read the license and am happy to comply with it. I was wondering
if there's something that is failing to work properly. Are there details
somewhere on how BK expects to be able to send the data, or how it can
be made to try to send it?

Regards,

Nigel

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 16:59, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > I've made one or two attempts at beginning to use BK for my kernel
> > development work, but each time I've been stuck by the licensing code. I
> > use it for a little while, and then get a message about not being
> > allowed to commit because of logging (or something to that effect). Can
> > someone give me info on how to set up BK so that you don't get these
> > issues? (I'm assuming I don't need to buy it to use it for kernel
> > development). I should add that I'm doing 99% of my work disconnected
> > from the internet.
> 
> Read the license.  The free use requires that you connect periodically to 
> log what it is you are doing.  Those are the terms of use.  If that doesn't
> work for you there is the CVS gateway and the SVN gateway.
> 
> If you are having problems with BK you might try support@bitmover.com
> or bitkeeper-users@bitmover.com.
-- 
Nigel Cunningham
495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless,
Christ died for the ungodly.
	-- Romans 5:6, NIV.

Re: Do I have to buy a license to use BK for kernel development?

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> I did read the license and am happy to comply with it. I was wondering
> if there's something that is failing to work properly. Are there details
> somewhere on how BK expects to be able to send the data, or how it can
> be made to try to send it?

Basically, BK wants to send logging data. If it can't do that, after a
number of changes it stops working.

bk help log

So, as soon as you're online, just run "bk log" in every BK tree you've
worked at when offline.

You can use the -d option if you need to figure out what's happening.

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