BitKeeper license critic

[Joerg Schilling]

>From: MJ Ray <markj at cloaked.freeserve.co.uk>

>Joerg Schilling <schilling at fokus.gmd.de> wrote:
>> Looks to be still CVS which is nonstandard (see POSIX.1-2001 or UNIX-98)

>Do you have references to the appropriate parts of these, please?

Subscribe to opengroup.org to get free access to the standards....

POSIX contains SCCS but does not contain VCS.


>> Also the RCS repository file format is prone to faults.

>How so?

No checksum and a backward delta.

In former times, this caused problems with flaky HW in out time this
causes problems with flaky the Linux NFS implementation....

Jörg

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