Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 16:33:23 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG, cgd@netbsd.org, ross@netbsd.org, core@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Copyright infringement in FreeBSD/alpha Message-ID: <199806102133.QAA10047@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199806102054.NAA24707@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from Jason Thorpe at "Jun 10, 98 01:54:53 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jason Thorpe said: > On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:48:10 -0500 (EST) > "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Again, it is an issue of an error (which Doug is trying to correct right > > away, as soon as being notified), vs. an attitude which you are > > showing clearly that you care little about giving credit other > > than on purely legal necessity. > > ...an error made worse by the fact that, regardless of what the head > revision of the file has, revisions LACKING the notice are still available > via the exported RCS information. > > Y'know, I wouldn't be so upset about this, except for the fact that this > is not the first time that something like this has happened. > Ditto, and private communications are less damaging to both the messenger and the receiver of the message. My intentions about credit (personally) are true, and sometimes find that peoples public stance and actual behavior are inconsistent. I believe that people should be polite regarding credit, and as a side effect will strive to be complete and accurate legally. I think that following only the letter of the law can still be very impolite. All this said, I would be very surprised if the code stagnates as it is, and it is not likely that it will stay technologically the way it is for long. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199806102133.QAA10047>