Bitkeeper in Linuxdevelopment :(

[Wim De Smet]

Hi,


Joerg Schilling wrote:

>>From jeroen at dekkers.cx Thu Feb  7 16:46:40 2002
>
>>On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:05:38PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>
>>>The result is that there is only CVS which cannot be called free.
>>>
>
>>Am I missing something? AFAIK CVS is completely free.
>>
>
>Yup, you are missing the difference between free beer and freedom.
>
>While the CVD program is free, it does not give me the needed freedom.
>
>Please note: in the 1980s CVS has been free only for universities.
>
>		The CVS authors did create a script that converts SCCS
>		history fiules into RCS history files but not vice
>		versa. 
>
>If I would have beeen interested to test CVS and later would find that I 
>don't like it, I would not have the freedom to convert back to SCCS.
>
><snip>
>
I agree, but if it is fully documented, don't you have the freedom to 
write the script yourself? I do not see the problem in that.


/me going on little information,
Wim