Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree

Jeff Garzik
2002-04-20T20:05:00Z

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:43:48PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 20:13, you wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> >
> > > As always, what I do is in the interest of Linux and freedom.
> >
> > Then why do you want to deny us the freedom to have a very
> > useful piece of documentation in the kernel tree ?
>
> If I objected to the inclusion of a piece of code licensed under Microsoft's
> 'shared source' license, whould you also say I was denying your freedom?

You tried to -remove-, not include something. And, what you tried to
remove was under the GPL license, not any other license. So your
analogy doesn't hold.

You attempted to remove a GPL'd work from a GPL'd work, on the basis of
its content conflicting with your ideology.

Jeff