Re: New BK License Problem?

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 19:51:58 EST


On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 09:19:41PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > The main complaint I've heard now is "if I develop a product
> > that competes with bitkeeper, won't I be able to grab <free
> > software project available in BK> any more ??"
> >
> > A fix for this would be "make patches available from bkbits.net".
>
> bkbits.net is a free service. [snip good arguments]

> But as I said to someone else, why doesn't someone register
> "nobkbits.net" and use BK to mirror the repos and then provide the
> tarballs/patches as you see fit.

I can do this on NL.linux.org. I'm already doing it for the
2.4 and 2.5 Linux kernel trees and am willing to run the script
for other bitkeeper trees too.

If people want it, just let me know.

regards,

Rik

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