Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:29:13 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you |
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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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