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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] BK license change
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:12:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16zGCW-0001EM-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020421095715.A10525@work.bitmover.com>

On Sunday 21 April 2002 18:57, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I'm considering a change to the BKL which says that N days after a
> changeset is made, that changeset (and its ancestory) must be available
> on a public bk server.  In other words, put a hard limit on how long
> you may hide.

More red tape is usually bad.  You want to do it to protect your commericial
interests?  Fine.  However, the GPL does not need Bitkeeper to be its robocop.
GPL violations have a way of coming to light without this sort of automated
enforcement.

-- 
Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22 12:11 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 [this message]
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
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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