Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:25:29 -0800 (PST) | From | David Lang <> | Subject | Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers |
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change 'bitkeeper, is open source' to 'bitkeeper, has the source code available, including provisions to allow you to modify it (as long as the openlogging isn't removed'
David Lang
On 5 Mar 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Date: 5 Mar 2002 15:14:19 -0800 > From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of > BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers > > Followup to: <20020305230143.GB5538@matchmail.com> > By author: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > IIRC, bitkeeper, is open source. It just doesn't have a free license. I > > could be wrong(I haven't checked). If I am, someone will say so... > > > > A free license is a necessary, but not sufficient, requirement for > something to be Open Source. > > -hpa > -- > <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! > "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." > http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <amsp@zytor.com> > - > 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/ > - 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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