From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 19:38:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC22C37BD09; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:38:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA37098; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:38:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:38:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200004250238.WAA37098@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Chuck Robey Cc: "David O'Brien" , FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning In-Reply-To: References: <20000424185151.A36672@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > OK. Thanks, I wanted some opinions, and I guess I have enough to satisfy > me. I'd like to add that it can be particularly important when legal questions arise. Should some submarine patent cover parts of FreeBSD's practice, it will turn out to be extremely important to be able to document (through the revision history) precisely when the technique under question appeared. Similarly, when Berkeley was defending the USL suit, they needed to make use of the revision history to document their reimplementation process. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message