Andrew Tridgell maintains silence to Linus Torvalds, while seeking expert's legal advice. At this time, another open source community leader Bruce Peens couldn't stand it, and he publicly defended the work of the Tridgell Reverse Engineering Bitkeeper (BK) agreement. Earlier, Torvalds accused TridGell's behavior, and published two wording on the Internet. In the second seal, Torvalds even used the word "vicious damage behavior". Perens said that it is time to calm down. He said: "Sometimes Linus Torvald can really express it very idiots, this time he stood unwise." Perens also pointed out that BK is not suitable for use on the GPL project, but it has always been a lot Nuclear developers are sold. Many people refuse to use it is not because the author Larry McVoy stops providing free clients. Therefore, the accusation of TridGell is completely unfair. Perens met from McVoy 7, they were all growing in the Long Island in New York. Perens said: "Larry can be elegant to leave. But I feel that it is not in him, if not 'some reasons', he will definitely shut up early." The following is an interview with Perens: Q: why Trovalds It is considered that the anti-engineering Microsoft protocol is correct, but the direction of the direction project is a problem? A: Let's take a look at what Tridge has made. Tridge is known for Samba. He reverse engineered Microsoft's line communication protocol to compatible with Linux, UNIX or Mac. This technology is very popular and used on HP, IBM and Apple's commercial products. At that time, anyone did not have views on Tridge. His approach did not violate the copyright, because his product did not involve the software itself, just borrowed the communication method of the software. After getting commercial success, Tridge started another project, which is compatible with Bitmover. Like him on a project, he did not have the source code for Bitkeeper. Surprisingly, this time many people start looking for him. In my opinion, the accusation of Tridge is completely stern. Sometimes Linus Torvalds can really express very idiot, this time he stood in an unwiselaw. Q: What is the property protected by BitKeeper? Larry believes that Metadata is also part of the BitKeeper software. Is this correct? If this is correct, what is the specific content of Larry's BitKeeper property? A: These allegations are identical to many people's allegations of GPL. As a software copyright provider, Larry can only protect his code without including his data file, such as Metadata. Q: Well, so Larry is now like there is no marking with a paddle. Then what happened? A: Then Larry has built some unsuitable conspiracy. I think it is when Larry shuts it, I hope he doesn't want to make anything again, such as file a legal proceedings. This will not have any benefits to him, will only ruin his business. In Perens, people should be accused of using non-open source tools (such as BitKeeper) in the GPL project. Because, the use of completely free utensils is the principle of open source software developers. Linus has been solving the technical dispute is very talented. He has solved a lot of disputes before this. However, this time he lost the correct balance.
