Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BK sync ?

[Alexander Deruwe]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:29:14PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Alexander Deruwe wrote:
> > This is the relevant clause:
> >
> > (d)  Notwithstanding any other terms in this License, this
> >      License is not available to You if  You  and/or  your
> >      employer  develop,  produce,  sell,  and/or  resell a
> >      product which contains substantially similar capabil-
> >      ities  of  the BitKeeper Software, or, in the reason-
> >      able opinion of BitMover, competes with the BitKeeper
> >      Software.
> 
> I'm afraid that by "develop" there is also mean developing any addition to
> tla. So IMHO any development of direct (vide below) bk2arch is prohibited.

Hrm, yeah, and bk2arch would almost certainly be classed as 'competing
product'.

> AFAIK bk2svn uses bk2cvs which is product of BitMover. So writting
> indirect bk2arch which will use bk2cvs is IMHO possible, but writting
> direct bk2arch is IMHO very risky.

Maybe running cscvs on the bk2cvs repository would yield some nice
results; I don't know.

Alexander