Craig <netburgher@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in
<news:Lllog.109614$H71.6708@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>:
> An example of a new version control system is subversion
> (subversion.tigris.org/) This is open source that is designed to
> replace CVS. It was launched by Linus Torvald after years of
> using CVS (a closed-source product) for his Linux kernel
> development.
CVS is open source software -- the license is the GNU GPL.
Torvalds was using the closed-source BitKeeper. He had to drop
BitKeeper after a kernel developer was accused of reverse engineering
it while working on a replacement for it -- the BitKeeper folks
withdrew permission for kernel hackers to use it free of charge.
He never used Subversion. The project he started to replace BitKeeper,
and which he's now using, is called Git. <http://git.or.cz/>