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    SubjectRe: Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you
    On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:09:15AM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
    > Ok, let's try again. Because honestly I'm pretty sick of this BK saga on
    > lkml. It's maybe time to understand if people here is against Larry or
    > against the BK license itself. It seems to me that there's the request of
    > a read-only tool that is able to read BK repositories to fetch the latest
    > kernel trees. I proposed before to Larry and to lkml to have Larry to
    > release a read-only ( read-only here means, able only to fetch sources and
    > related information ) BK binary under different licensing. Why this
    > couldn't solve the problem if Larry and the anti-BK movement will find an
    > agreement on the license ? Larry, is it possible to release such tool
    > under a less strict license ?

    No.

    Because, in order to properly export data, you have to not understand
    the BK file format, but you also have precisely follow BK's method
    for creating the "weave" of changesets which produces a valid [GNU
    patch / changeset / whatever].

    Thus, even to have an open source BK export tool requires that key
    BK algorithms be open sourced.

    Jeff



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