El 09 Feb 2005 05:06:02 -0200, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> So you've somehow managed to trick most kernel developers into > granting you power over not only the BK history, in such a way that > anyone willing to extract all the information available from the BK > repository and share it with others is forbidden from doing so by the > license? BK history is not part of "linux kernel", and those who use BK know why they're using BK and what are the consecuence so calling them "tricked" is quite misleading from your part. I don't understand people. Before BK, linux kernel development *never* had a "history" and you had to develop against -pre patches. When linus switched to BK, he said clearly that he wasn't going to change that, and it has not changed, in fact these days you can use -bk patches which are much better than -pre's. Then Larry put a CVS gateway just to made people happy and give them things that have *NEVER* been guaranteed. So, "kernel history" is *not* part of the "linux kernel development", is just a nice addon for those who optionally want to use BK, because the _official_ way of getting changes for the linux kernel are patches at kernel.org which don't have any way of keeping track of "kernel history", not BK and/or CVS. Everyone who claims the contrary is wrong, period. Besides, Larry is exporting most of that story in CVS, so those who accuse Larry of "stealing our freedom" should think twice that Larry doesn't even to _listen_ you and he doen't needs to care about your request because it's not him who decided to use BK, and it's not him who decided to lose the "kernel history" using a propietary tool. What you really want is change the official kernel development (GNU diff patches at kernel.org) for something better that can track all that "kernel history", and you are not going to change that shouting at Larry because (again) it's *not* him who decided to use BK. (of course if you ask linus he'll tell exactly what I said, that BK is just a _option_ and that you can get all the patches at kernel.org with all the consequences - losing the "kernel history" because GNU diff don't really supports that) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/