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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. References: <JKH.93Nov13222001.2@whisker.lotus.ie> <DERAADT.93Nov14120145@pain.agate> <CGI1IM.D1x@kithrup.com> <DERAADT.93Nov14131158@pain.agate> Message-ID: <CGI75p.Dsv@kithrup.com> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 22:43:57 GMT Lines: 30 In article <DERAADT.93Nov14131158@pain.agate> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: >This is really funny, Sean. This is a prime example of how we attempt to >work with people, and how we provide attribution! Please. You complained that you were not attributed in the code. I pointed out that I wasn't, either, for my ptrace changes. I pointed out that, for all the files that did not have your name in the copyright in the freebsd version of yp, there was a comment in the CVS file saying that it was imported from netbsd, where someone could go look more closely (well, they could have, but that's closed now, isn't it?). The only place I am given attribution for my ptrace changes is in the CVS file, and that one update cgd posted. >Here's the significant portions of the logs: See? Yes, it's in the logs. But you folks distributed my code without making sure I had proper attribution in the code. And I don't really care. But I got even less attribution than you did. Yes you complain. And now you're jumping up to defend yourself. After complaining about the freebsd folks, who did just as much as you did. >No, it has not stopped us from distributing it. Since you commited it to >the tree, why should we not use it? By mailing it to Chris in the first >place you explicitly gave us permission to use it. Wrong. Absolutely wrong. It might be argued that I implicitly gave permission (and that was, in fact, my intent), but nowhere did I say, "Here is this code which you may now distribute."