From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 4 8:41:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel2.hp.com (atlrel2.hp.com [156.153.255.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A1C237BF75 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 08:41:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from postal.sr.hp.com (postal.sr.hp.com [15.4.46.173]) by atlrel2.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D7B14E5 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 11:41:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com (root@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by postal.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id IAA02934 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 08:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id IAA29639 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 08:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005041540.IAA29639@mina.sr.hp.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Credit where it's due Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 2000 03:04:30 PDT." <20000504030430.A21461@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 08:40:57 PDT From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nik Clayton 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: rev 0x05 int a irq 10 > fxp0: Driver written by David Greenman > [...] > > 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 DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message