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From: downsj@threadway.teeny.org (Jason Downs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: *BSD* Security WWW/Mailing List?
Date: 21 Apr 1997 02:37:15 GMT
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In article <5jeb2b$ata@cynic.portal.ca>,
	 cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
>Yeah, it's just when you take entire ports that you don't give
>credit, hmm? If you've got the name of the person who wrote your
>Alpha port anywhere outside the source code, it's well hidden enough
>that I can't find it. And that goes for a lot of other code, too.

Most people would be smart enough to go look at the source, read any
relevant copyright notices, the preserved NetBSD RCS IDs, the commit
messages that mention NetBSD, etc.

Or is this just too difficult for you?

Imagine, if NetBSD actually made their CVS tree publically available like
everyone else, we could reference specific NetBSD commits and others
could go find commit histories based on the NetBSD RCS IDs.

But, hey, you don't make such information available.

-- 
Jason Downs
downsj@teeny.org

	       Little.  Yellow.  Secure.  http://www.openbsd.org/