Re: [Xen-devel] NetBSD port and a couple of remarks

[Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Are you doing development work on subversion, arch, or another revision
> > control system? If not, what is the concern?
> 
> I've worked in the past on cvs for a client.  I usually don't care much
> about licences but there's been so much noise about this one and I take that
> as an indication that the bitkeeper people have some agenda with that
> licence and I'd rather not be subject to it.

I've just gone looking for the current version of the license --
it's not actually easy to find from the web pages:
http://www.bitkeeper.com/bkl.txt

We certainly had concerns when we embarked on using bk, but
there's no denying that it's a damn good tool, considerably
better than cvs/arch/subversion. Different people in the group
have tried using both arch and subversion for other large
projects, but the experience hasn't been good.

I'm no lawyer, but from my reading of the license there should be
no *legal* problem with *anyone* using it for Xen development,
providing that a) you don't mind having your ChangeLog entries
logged and viewable to the whole world and b) you intend to make
the source "publicly available".

The latter point made us slightly nervous as some of the
ChangeLog entries for a previous large project were somewhat
'colourful', but in practice this hasn't been a problem, so far.

Anyhow, I've been meaning to write a script to make the nightly
src and builds available for download as a tar ball.

Best,
Ian

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