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Re: Supermount
Hi
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:
+/*
+ * linux/fs/supermount/file.c
+ *
+ * Original version:
+ * Copyright (C) 1995
+ * Stephen Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
+ *
+ * Rewriten for kernel 2.2. (C) 1999 Alexis Mikhailov
+ * (alexis@medinf.chuvashia.su)
+ *
+ * $Id: file.c,v 1.1 1999/09/05 12:12:13 root Exp $
+ */
The entire patch doesn't mention mandrake. They are only mentioned
on the author's site (sent previously) as bug reporters.
Maybe, Ira, mandrake is a great distribution. Maybe one day I will
work with it, at some place (although not home, as someone said in
the last distro fight on this list: people who install debian do not
go to other distributions any more). 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)?
This has nothing to do with Law and stuff - this is mere politeness.
Again, sorry for the OT.
And also sorry for the date (100). It is being taken care
of here at math.tau (as I was told) so don't flame me for _this_.
didi
Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 100, Yedidya Bar-david wrote:
>
> > Do you know what version is shipped with mandrake?
>
> nope. the man page is from Dec 1999, the perl script "supermount" is
> copyright mandrake with no version and
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/supermount/super.c says nothing special
> either. maybe it IS still 0.6.
>
> > BTW, there is vold (at least on debian) and autofs (in the regular 2.2)
> > (and the BSD amd, of course, also on debian)
>
> > Anyone used any of them? positive or negative comments?
>
> amd and autofs are supposed to be sort of filling the same niche, but
> each has features the other doesn't. vold I never heard of. amd and
> autofs run as daemons with seperate incompatible config files (in amd's
> case a very cryptic one!) and supermount is an elegant kernel patch
> fitting right into the fstab. exquisite.
>
> --
> Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast
>
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