Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Oct 2002 16:02:16 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: New BK License Problem? | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:08:02 -0700
The clause is specifically designed to target those companies which produce or sell commercial SCM systems. That's why we explicitly left out "distribute". The open source developers have nothing to worry about.
I don't have any problems with what you're trying to achieve, but my fear is that it doesn't even do that.
Nothing in your license changes stops someone from dark-room duplicating bitkeeper. Just as clone Intel processors are sold quite legally today. Intel lost their attempts to stop that and my current guess is that you have a smaller legal representation than Intel has :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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