BitKeeper licence critic // was ... license critic

[Joerg Schilling]

>From discussion-admin at fsfeurope.org Thu Mar  7 07:56:51 2002

>> Is there anything we can practically do to change the bk decision? It looks
>> like bk has raised more than enough technical problems of its own.  Maybe
>> Aegis solves some of them?  Aegis also have problems marketing themselves.
>> PDF manuals, really, in this day and age!  ;_)

>IMHO, its pointless persuing this - linus knows the BK guys quite well (from 
>what it seems).   And while I sympathise with people that say its isn't Free, 
>its is free as in money, and the developers will implement any sensible ideas 
>people suggest, and have stated several times that it is a very complex bit 
>of software, far more complex than say the kernel.  This requires a full time 
>staff to develop it, and they are being paid to develop it by companies that 
>require such a software - the BK people are trying to give the best of both 
>worlds, and I personally wish them the best of luck.

>But on the otherhand I realise the danger (whatif BK 'goes bad' when we are 
>all dependant etc)  but they have added clauses that it will go GPL if they 
>go out of business, etc etc. and are trying to counter most of the usual bad 
>points.

It helps to visit the BK web site and read first hand information before 
writing mail that is based on estimations....

BK will bekome GPL if openlogging.org goes offline for 90+ days.

Jörg

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