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Re: Supermount
On Wed, 19 Jan 100, Yedidya Bar-david wrote:
> Sorry for another OT post, but the Makefile from the author's patch
> contains no copyright, seems similar to Stephen Tweedie's original
> Makefile, and the new source files have this copyright:
so? I missed your point here...
> The entire patch doesn't mention mandrake. They are only mentioned
> on the author's site (sent previously) as bug reporters.
which is fine, they didn't write the patch themselves, and they are
honoring the author according to the spirit of the GPL (and any patches
to the kernel ARE afterall, GPL)
> However, for me - they lost
> their first chance to make a first good impression. Why the @#$%
> they had to put their copyright there? it's a trivial file! couldn't
> they leave it alone, or put the author's copyright there (obviously,
> that would be Linus - it was copied from a makefile of his, then
> Stephen Tweedie, probably then Alexis Mikhailov)?
where did they put their copyright? the bit you showed only reffered to
the authors. I looked at other files in the directory, it's nice and
consistant, they mention the right people. I find it VERY useful to know
who wrote the code I'm looking at, in case I want to ask him a
question. see here, what's wrong with this?
/*
* linux/fs/supermount/dir.c
*
* Original version:
* Copyright (C) 1995, 1997
* Stephen Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
*
* from
*
* linux/fs/minix/dir.c
* Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
*
* and
*
* linux/fs/ext2/dir.c
* Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Remy Card
*
* Rewriten for kernel 2.2. (C) 1999 Alexis Mikhailov
* (alexis@medinf.chuvashia.su)
*
infact {grep -i "mandrake" *} in that directory produces nothing, so how
do you mean "they had to put their copyright there"?
and that's your reason to hate the entire distribution? you are weird,
my friend... get a proportion pill.
--
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sit in front of your linux computer playing with the
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