Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:02:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, ache@nagual.pp.ru, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@FreeBSD.ORG, xaa@stack.nl Subject: Re: CVSUP and CVS branches: bug? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970702195152.6427A-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <17252.867895713@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Half-serious suggestion... why not ask Perforce if they would like > > to "donate" their source management system for FreeBSD's non-commercial > > use? Not likely, but anyway here's a ref to it: > > They've already offered us the server for $1 on freefall and an > unlimited number of clients, for whomever wants to use the repository > maintained there. Any other group using FreeBSD non-profit also gets > the same $1/server deal, so they can run their own repositories. > Our CVSmeister personally likes perforce. > > Truly, the barriers here are not technical or financial, they're > political. :-) > > Jordan Except the license seems to deny not only commerical use or perforce (not a big deal, when working on free software), but to any commercial organiation. So if I want to use perforce to maintain some patches (for example long user-names in 2.2-stable), I can't. However, the eval version may be suitable for that kind of thing... Tom
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