Seeking good web sites for Debian tools

Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com
Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:30:28 -0700


Quoting Erich Schubert (erich@vitavonni.de):

> The opensource version is read-only.

Above and beyond that, it's limited to checking out just the head
version.

> Although especially Linus and the other kernel developers would
> probably still get free licences, they are not happy with this, so
> they are looking for alternatives.

I believe Linus, specifically, is barred from using that licence,
henceforth, as long as he's employed by OSDN.

> Actually Linus himself has written a small alternative with some
> interesting features, including the "signing" of patches.

It's a neat little patch manager, but honestly pretty far from being an
SCM.