[darcs-users] [OT] Larry McVoy on the Bitkeeper licence

[Karel Gardas]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Erik Bågfors wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:31:27 -0500, David Roundy
> <droundy at abridgegame.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:06:41AM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > > > It's possible that we'll be changing the BK license [...]
> > > > What we would like to do is change the language to say that if you
> > > > use BK you are agreeing that you won't work on another SCM for 1
> > > > year after you stop using BK. -- Larry McVoy, 13 February 2005
> >
> > What I wonder about is whether submitting bug reports on darcs would count
> > as "working on another SCM"...
>
> I don't think so..  What he looks most affraid of is someone
> copying/reverse enginering BK.

I'm not so sure about this, since bugreporting is also contributing to the
project and so it directly affects bitmover.com by making better
alternative(s) possible...

Karel
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