[LLVMdev] Version Control Upgrade?

Misha Brukman brukman at uiuc.edu
Sun Jan 9 20:46:38 PST 2005


On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:02:38PM -0800, Jeff Cohen wrote:
> I have used Perforce also and fully agree it's wonderful.  The only
> concern I have is with their license for open source projects.  The
> only gotcha is that it must be renewed annually, and they reserve the
> right to not renew it (though they say they won't unreasonably deny
> renewals).  Not sure how much this really matters, as Perforce strikes
> me as being one of those "do no evil" companies.

OK, so let's say they exercise their right to "not renew a license",
what's our fall-back?  If the repository is a binary proprietary format,
(which I'm not sure if it is, please correct me if I'm wrong), how do we
go back to CVS/SVN/Monotone/etc.?  Or are we up the proverbial creek?

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