From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 2 20:06:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA15043 for current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.com (tom@shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA15029; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tom@localhost) by shell.uniserve.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA06451; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:02:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.uniserve.com: tom owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:02:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Archie Cobbs , Bruce Evans , 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? In-Reply-To: <17252.867895713@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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