Re: BK MetaData License Problem?

Manfred Spraul
2002-10-06T12:34:46Z

> By transmitting the Metadata
> to an Open Logging server, You hereby grant BitMover,
> or any other operator of an Open Logging server, per-
> mission to republish the Metadata sent by the Bit-
> Keeper Software to the Open Logging server.
>

Where is the problem? This asks for a permission, not for exclusive rights.

> By transmitting the MetaData to an Open Logging server, You
> hereby also agree to license the MetaData under the same license
> you license the data it describes.
>
> (or something to that extent - i'm not a lawyer.)
>

That's a problem for Linux, not for Larry.

If you send a patch to Linus this means you distribute a modification to
GPLed source, which means it's automatically placed under the GPL.

What's missing is a comment in the BK-usage document that informs the
submitter that he must give the permission to republish the commit info.
i.e. asking Linus to pull from an url is not a private message to Linus,
it's the equivalent of sending a mail to a public, moderated mailing list.

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Manfred