One thing I don't understand about what McVoy's doing

One thing I don't understand about what McVoy's doing - Perens (LinuxWorld)

Posted Jan 28, 2003 16:00 UTC (Tue) by lm (guest, #6402)
In reply to: One thing I don't understand about what McVoy's doing Perens (LinuxWorld) by rknop
Parent article: Larry McVoy on BitKeeper, kernel development, Linus Torvalds and Bruce Perens (LinuxWorld)

We tried pretty close to what you are suggesting, we used to release source
under a license which said "you can do pretty much anything you want except
remove the openlogging features". The default target in the Makefile displayed the license.

The first thing people did was to remove the openlogging stuff in direct
violation of the license.

The thing you are missing is that if we release under any source license at
all we make it possible for people to remove the very thing which provides
us with a revenue stream.

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One thing I don't understand about what McVoy's doing - Perens (LinuxWorld)

Posted Jan 28, 2003 16:35 UTC (Tue) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]

OK, my misunderstanding was that I thought it was something *added* to the commercial version, rather than something present in the FreeBeer version the removal of which made it work for the commercial version.

-Rob