Re: [off-topic] Cyclic selling to SourceGear, the future of CVS

Shaw Terwilliger (sterwill@postman.sourcegear.com)
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:56:53 -0500

Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> Marc Britten wrote:
> > I was just wondering about thoughts on the sale of cyclic to
> > sourcegear. With the linux kernel probably being one of the best
> > known projects that uses CVS, i figured you might have some
> > comments/hopes/fears
>
> The official kernel is not managed with CVS. And I don't think the sale of
> Cyclic is significant anyway - CVS is GPLed, meaning if the current
> maintainers fail to maintain it, anyone else who cares to may take their
> place.

As an employee of SourceGear Corporation (also sponsoring the
AbiSource project), I can assure you that CVS is now receiving some
additional development attention that it had not previously enjoyed.
Being GPLed software, CVS will continue to be available as free
software. CVS should only get better in the near future as improvements
and patches (some having been in the queue for more than one year) are
applied to the tree. Watch for new releases with improvments.

Not being on the CVS team, I'll take this chance to direct any
further inquiries to Eric Sink (eric@sourcegear.com), who, I'm sure,
would be glad to answer any other questions you may have about CVS.

-- 
Shaw Terwilliger (sterwill@sourcegear.com, sterwill@abisource.com)


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