On Wednesday 06 June 2001 10:27, you wrote:

On Tuesday 05 June 2001 21:44, Gustaf Neumann wrote:

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Dear XOTcl community,

If you have interest to get access to the current development version of XOTcl (which is exactly 0.85-p1) you can use bitkeeper to get the source tree. Bitkeeper (http://www.bitkeeper.com) is an open source version control system.

Hopla ! This "BitKeeper" is a commercial product requiring license ?

license yes, "commercial" in certain cases. bitkeeper has different kind of licenses (including a commercial one). It is free for multi-user when "open logging" is activated. See below.

look at the list of projects using bitkeeper, it includes e.g. mysql. http://www.bitkeeper.com/v2_logging/desc.html

the main reason for me to switch from cvs to bitkeeper was that it allows renaming of files and directories. I am still somewhat struggling with it, but it seems quite a nice product. Larry McVoy (one of the persones behind bitkeeper) wrote some time ago about a distributed source code management system, which certainly influenced bitkeeper... http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/smoosh.ps

-gustaf

PS: i have no personal interest in bk, nobody is forced to use bitkeeper, it is just an easy way to access our development verison. we will continue to distribute tar files as well.

bk licensing(1) BitKeeper User's Manual bk licensing(1)

NAME bk licensing - BitKeeper Licensing Overview

DESCRIPTION This section briefly explains the licensing models. See the references for more detailed information.

BitKeeper has multiple licensing models:

=>free with no Open Logging (aka single user), license is the BKL. =>free with Open Logging, license is the BKL. =>commercial, license is the BKCL.

FREE USE WITH NO LOGGING BitKeeper can be used for free, without licensing or Open Logging, if the repository is single user. To create a single user repository, at setup time pick a permanent user name and a host name and add to the Bit- Keeper/etc/config file; all deltas will appear to be made by this user.

The lines in the config file must look like this:

single_user:<user_name> single_host:<host_name>

The <user_name> and <host_name> can be anything, but once they have been chosen they cannot be changed. If changed the repository will be seen as a multiple user repository by BitKeeper and will either need a license key or will need to participate in Open Logging.

To change a single user repository to a multiple user repository see bk multiuser.

WARNING Single user repositories only work on repositories that have less than 1000 files. If the maximum is reached, the repository will not allow any more changesets to occur. To use the repository again, the repository must be setup for openlogging or a commercial license must be purchased.

Once a repository is changed from a single user to multi- ple user repository it can not be changed to a single user repository again. Once a multiple user repository it must be setup for openlogging or a commercial license must be purchased.

If you are looking for the BitKeeper License for free use (BKL), see bk help bkl.

FREE USE WITH LOGGING BitKeeper may be used for free, without any functionality loss or other restrictions, if Open Logging is used.

To setup openlogging, add the following line to the config file:

logging:logging@openlogging.org

COMMERCIAL USE The use of BitKeeper without Open Logging enabled requires a commercial license key. You can get a temporary license by sending a mail request to bk_license@bitmover.com.

Once the license key is obtained, add a line to the Bit- Keeper/etc/config file that looks like:

license: <license key>

SEE ALSO bk help bkl bk help config-etc bk help multiuser bk help openlogging

CATEGORY Licensing Overview

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