Re: RFC - tarball/patch server in BitKeeper

Larry McVoy
2003-12-24T01:51:33Z

Hey, Pavel, do me a favor and take me off the cc list. I've unsubscribed
from the Linux kernel list, this is a good example of why. No sense of
humor on your part, and you are whining about a license on a 200 line
chunk of code. Any decent programmer could have reimplemented it in
less time than it took you to complain.

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 09:02:57PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > and patches. The idea is to make it possible for all trees hosted by
> > bkbits.net provide access to the data with a free client (included
> ~~~~
> > below
> > in prototype form).
>
> Unfortunately that is not free client for any reasonable definition of
> "free"; which matters, because it means that tarball.c is not getting
> into any distribution in any form. Someone will simply have to
> reimplement it.
> Pavel
>
> > /*
> > * tarball.c copyright (c) 2003 BitMover, Inc.
> > *
> > * Licensed under the NWL - No Whining License.
> > *
> > * You may use this, modify this, redistribute this provided you agree:
> > * - not to whine about this product or any other products from BitMover, Inc.
> > * - that there is no warranty of any kind.
> > * - retain this copyright in full.
> > */
>
> --
> When do you have a heart between your knees?
> [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]

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