From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 2 16:14: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6C314FDA for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:13:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id QAA18009; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:10:18 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA25272; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:10:17 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA22790; Thu, 2 Dec 99 16:10:15 PST Message-Id: <38470A6F.D5962E5E@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 17:10:23 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Harlan Stenn Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bitkeeper license review References: <12389.944103209@brown.pfcs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Harlan Stenn wrote: > > Anybody here have the time/inclination/ability to review a *draft* of the > proposed BitKeeper license to see if it would be acceptable for use by > FreeBSD? I'm not sure what you mean by "acceptable for use by FreeBSD". If you mean, could we include BitKeeper as a port in FreeBSD, the answer is certainly yes. Doing so would be a good idea, too, we want FreeBSD to be a splendiferous software development system, with as many tools as possible. If you mean, would the FreeBSD Project be willing to have their change logs sent to a public server somewhere, we already do. Our CVS server is open to public scrutiny, of both the code and commit logs. If you mean developing FreeBSD-related projects using BitKeeper as a source store, I doubt anyone would complain at all. Please contribute your FreeBSD port of it before you set off, and I'll lead the cheering. ;^) If you mean moving the FreeBSD CVS repository to BitKeeper, you probably don't understand how much work you are asking for even if BitKeeper provided some compelling features over what we have now. I my opinion, it does not. I've read through Larry's explanation of the theory of operation for BitKeeper, and it seems quite good as a tool for enabling Linus to pore over every patch flowing into Linux Central, and less useful for just about anything else. But I certainly don't see anything in the license WE would find objectionable. Quite the opposite, I expect he will get a LOT more licensing flak from the Linux crowd. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message