On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:31:32AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > > AFAIK they don't modify Subversion's code. Their solution proxys webdav > > traffic between Subversion clients and servers, like a man-in-the-middle. > > The licence of Subversion doesn't matter in this case. > > I'd be..... really, really surprised by that. I'd expect the > pre-commit hooks, at least, to do some kind of verification of the > local server's state as the designated master node, to avoid the > split-brain situations.
Pre-commit hooks aren't part of Subversion's code. There are many examples where a non-copyleft licence allows companies to build products that couldn't be proprietary if the original code was copyleft. But this isn't one of them. What WD is doing would work even if Subversion was proprietary software and the on-wire protocol was reverse-engineered. > But since it's closed source, I don't have > access to it. Do you have a copy you can check on? No. I don't have access to wandisco's code. I only know about what's written on their website.
