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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD
Date: 14 Nov 93 11:50:31
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 14 Nov 1993 19:34:44 GMT
In article <2c618k$j2d@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>Hmm, is this the issue? Then how come Chris just verbally donated the
>code to *YOUR* shared library implementation to BSDI a couple days ago,
>yet someone who distributes code on a stinking CD-ROM is a 'commercial
>effort' who shouldn't have access to *YOUR* code?
BZZZT. try again. what i said was that the code existed, and was
available via anonymous FTP for those who wanted it. Perhaps you should
read more and interpret less.
That is not a donation, it is a statement of fact. They can get
it via anonymous FTP or SUP, or gopher, just the same as anybody
else in the world can. Just like you can, in fact.
What they cannot do is take it, and all of the little changes which
go with it, from our CVS tree. Hell, i've never even sent
DIFFS of anything to *anyone* working at BSDI; if they've wanted
code, they've gotten it themselves, from public distribution sites.
All of the integration they've done they've done 100% on their own.
>Here's a questions I'd like to pose. Do all the people who donate their
>code to NetBSD realize that the only way that the general public can see
>their code is after you've hacked and slashed it up?
In general, very few people 'donate their code'. those who do are
generally given accounts so that they can integrate it and maintain
it themselves. If they do not wish to do that, then they can't
complain.
chris
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chris g. demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
smarter than your average clam.