Re: Kernel SCM saga..

[Tupshin Harper]

Roman Zippel wrote:

> It seems you exported the complete parent information and this is exactly 
> the "nitty-gritty" I was "whining" about and which is not available via 
> bkcvs or bkweb and it's the most crucial information to make the bk data 
> useful outside of bk. Larry was previously very clear about this that he 
> considers this proprietary bk meta data and anyone attempting to export 
> this information is in violation with the free bk licence, so you indeed 
> just took the important parts and this is/was explicitly verboten for 
> normal bk users.
>  
Yes, this is exactly the information that would be necessary to create a 
general interop tool between bk and darcs|arch|monotone, and is the 
fundamental objection I and others have had to open source projects 
using BK. Is Bitmover willing to grant a special dispensation to allow a 
lossless conversion of the linux history to another format?

-Tupshin
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