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Richard Tierney wrote:

Perforce (http://www.perforce.com/index.html ) is the best , in my opinion
Its a commercial product but they do give free licenses for Organizations
developing opensource stuff

While Perforce is not opensource it self but they do seem to support
opensource development
Here is text from their site on free licensing

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Free Licensing for Open Source Development
Organizations developing software that is licensed or otherwise distributed
exclusively under an Open Source license may be eligible to obtain Perforce
licenses gratis. This includes upgrades but not support.

Perforce Software reserves the right to approve the Open Source license;
those fitting The Open Source Definition, including the GNU and FreeBSD
licenses, are good candidates.

Execution of a End User License Agreement for Open Source Software
Development (PDF) is required. For more information, please see the Perforce
and Open Source FAQ or contact opensource@p....

The opesource definition as they see it is
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html
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If opencores incorporates perforce it will give it more professional touch
and it just might become  a news item too in some EDA magazine :)

Maybe Opencorse should try getting Perforce Licenses

Some of the names listed on Perforce site as customers include

Hitachi
HP
Cisco
Samsung
Electronic Arts
LeapFrog
Sony Computer Entertainment America
LEGO Group
Eidos Interactive
Merrill Lynch
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co

and others

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hordijk" <hoffbrinkle@h...>
To: <cores@o...>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 9:07 PM
Subject: [oc] Re: kindly convert opencores cvs repository to subversion
(svn)

> Richard Tierney wrote:
> > 1 - Why are commercial tools lock-modify-unlock, rather than
> > copy-modify-merge? Can you name a proper commercial tool that uses
> > copy-modify-merge? Why is this?
>
> At least one biggie: Perforce. http://www.perforce.com if you're
> interested in seeing how "properly commercial" they are.
>
> > 2 - I'll tell you how I would set it up: each
> > developer owns their own source files. They're responsible for those
> > files.
>
> I can tell you that does not scale well to a corporation with > 1000
> software developers.  Imagine code being critical pathed on a single
> developer!
>
> > 3 - One person needs to
> > understand the entire file intimately.
>
> If you're code is such that there's only one person that can understand
> and modify it in a reasonable amount of time, you've got bigger problems
> than copy-modify-merge.
>
> > How could you, as the project
> > manager, possibly allow two different developers to simultaneously
> > modify two different parts (or, in the worst case, the *same* part) of
> > the same file?
>
> How could you, as the project manager, possibly allow development on the
> code base without software development plans, coding style policy, and
> design/requirment documents?
>
> No version management system is a replacement for poor coding practices
> and lack of software development process.  It's just that certain
> versioning systems hide it more than others.
>
> - michael hordijk
>
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