Code Attirbution and Credits

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Sat Jan 24 16:47:21 PST 2004


On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:31:31PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :Hiten Pandya <hmp at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> :news:4012e8ef$0$183$415eb37d at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: 
> :
> :> I would like to just mention, as a safe note; please, if you do take 
> :> anything from camp FreeBSD, or any of the BSDs or Linux; then please 
> :> please please, do mention them in the commit log.
> :
> :I have to second that, for when I report events on the DragonFly BSD Log
> :or in a general summary as I did for 2003.  Otherwise, I'm just going to
> :compound the mistake by repeating it. 
> 
>     Well, I agree too.  And I certainly do not mind people doing an 
>     extra commit -f to add an attribution that may have been forgotten in
>     a recent commit (just don't get carried away :-)).

Yeah, I feel guilty. Credits were credits belongs. No, it don't DF to
end like Linux with SCO. It was only lazyness. And yes, I fully agree.

Joerg

> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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