Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 08:40:57 PDT From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Credit where it's due Message-ID: <200005041540.IAA29639@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 2000 03:04:30 PDT." <20000504030430.A21461@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> To give you an analogy, one of the things that really throws me everytime
> I see a Linux box booting up is the various copyrights as the boot probes
> go by. I'd never expect to see a
>
> [...]
> fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev 0x05 int a irq 10
> fxp0: Driver written by David Greenman <dg@FreeBSD.org>
> [...]
>
> in FreeBSD.
This issue just popped up yesterday on slashdot. For a view from
the peanut gallery, check out, "Advertising in Your Boot Sequence?":
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/03/0843228.shtml
> Perhaps a workable solution would be an "acknowledgements" block at the
> start of the Handbook (and/or FAQ), something like:
Another good place would be an appendix, especially if the list
grows large.
I think giving credit is a good idea, although it should be
unobtrusive. A paragraph in the introduction, or some appendix in the
back, are good places.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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