Messages in this thread |  | | From | david parsons <> | Subject | Re: [Bitkeeper-announce] RFC: BK license change | Date | Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:26:45 -0700 (PDT) |
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Larry McVoy wrote: > > No, we're not GPLing it but we are making a few adjustments and wanted to > make sure that it was an improvement, not a regression, in the eyes of > the free users. Sorry for the intrusion, I'll be as brief as possible. >
> 3(c) Maintaining Open Source. Our intent was that the free use of > BitKeeper was for the purpose of helping the open source community; > it was not to provide commercial users a free product. We have had > a number of cases where managers up to VPs have told their engineers > "just don't put anything useful in the checkin comments and then we > can use it for free". Not what we had in mind. So we're adding > a clause which says that we reserve the right to insist that you > make your repositories available on a public port within 15 days > of the request.
This addendum is somewhat [1] annoying, because I switched over to BK for _everything_ a couple of years ago and now I've got a moderately large body of stuff that is NOT open source (my resume, my dns, little proofs of concept projects that I did for people. I've not made one red penny off any of this [particularly since the economy has gone south and put me out of work for the past year. But I'm still not opensourcing my resume.]) that's under bitkeeper. If I upgrade to a bk that uses the new license, then I get to play the exciting game of ``break the new license and defraud my former employers'' [2], which is about as appealing as Linus's alternative approach to resolving software patent issues.
____ david parsons \bi/ [1: pronounced ``extremely''] \/ [2: or, alternatively, buy it, but this involves bitmover actually telling me how much it would cost AND having a job[3] so I could buy it.] [3: The Oregon economy really sucks, so this is filed under the category of ``sick jokes'' ] - 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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