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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!idea.exnet.iastate.edu!flipk From: flipk@idea.exnet.iastate.edu (Phillip F Knaack) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.security.unix Subject: Re: *BSD* Security WWW/Mailing List? Date: 21 Apr 1997 22:55:13 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA Lines: 39 Message-ID: <5jgr8h$rhc$1@news.iastate.edu> References: <335798C2.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <DERAADT.97Apr18181055@zeus.pacifier.com> <5jdgaf$34i@cynic.portal.ca> <5jejfh$g1b$1@threadway.teeny.org> <5jeul8$gla@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: idea.exnet.iastate.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6707 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3048 comp.security.unix:33824 cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: >In article <5jejfh$g1b$1@threadway.teeny.org>, >Jason Downs <downsj@threadway.teeny.org> wrote: >>Of course, it's not like such things are actually credited back to OpenBSD. >So including things like > This product includes software developed by Theo de Raadt. Jumping Jesus on a fucking pogo stick. See below. >in every copy--binary or source--of NetBSD we ship (in the INSTALL >document, no less) is not giving credit? What do you propose we >do, take out full-page adverts in all the major computer magazines >to tell the world which OpenBSD developers have contributed to >NetBSD? You guys use CVS right? You type log messages when you make commits right? Next time you copy something blatantly line for line, simply add to the log message, mention that the primary source is OpenBSD, maybe even mention the author of the patch. That's not so difficult. You must be totally braindead if you don't realize that not all OpenBSD code is written by Theo de Raadt. Others of us make contributions, too. Sometimes we make fixes from things mailed to us, or in our PR database, and these are virtually always credited to the orignator in that case as well. You might be wise to do the same. Cheers, Phil -- Interoperation with matter-transporters using polar coordinate systems is discouraged, due to round-off and other algorithmic errors in certain ubiquitous floating-point implementations, leading to results which are best discreetly described as "disappointing." --RFC 1437