Re: BK MetaData License Problem?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 11:29:07 EST


On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 14:13, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> yes, but what i say is that BK *creates* a problem, (just like CVS would
> create similar problems) and the license clearly shows that BM is aware of
> and tries to handle part of this legal problem. (And given that the BK
> metadata is richer than eg. CVS, i suspect it will be a magnified problem
> later on.)

The onyl real problem BK creates here IMHO is its not possible to use BK
to maintain the true master tree of a piece of software, because like
everyone else Linux people get security reports/fixes which are set to
go out on specific dates by people like CERT. The BK rules prevent
anyone from checking a change into their BK tree until the embargo date,
which can be a pain in the butt.

Fortunately its not a problem to me because I don't use it 8)

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Oct 07 2002 - 22:00:54 EST