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From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>,
	"Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev" <timon@memphis.mephi.ru>
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Subject: Re: solaris/x86 disklabel geom class
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On Friday 09 May 2003 14:37, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20030510005944.A53407@memphis.mephi.ru>, "Artem 'Zazoobr'
> Ignatiev"  writes:
> >
> >
> >Hello,
> >	I wrote geom class that handles SUN solaris/x86 disklabels, and
> > want someone to review it...
> >	Attached is a gzipped patch.
> >			Sinceherely yours, Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev.
>
> [...]
>
> Second, your contributed code has what looks like a rather carefree
> attitude to copyright messages:
>
> +/*
> + * This file was imported by timon@memphis.mephi.ru
> + * Some fixes were made to compile under FreeBSD
> + * Original copyright below.
> + * Original filename was sys/dklabel.h
> + * Copyright (c) 2003 by Artem Ignatiev <timon@memphis.mephi.ru>
> + */
> +/*
> + * Copyright (c) 1990-1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> + * All rights reserved.
> + */
> +

Poul-Henning is exactly right, we certainly won't be accepting any such 
code without some indication that Sun executives have allowed it.  We 
can't possibly expect others to respect our copyrights if we blatantly 
ignore theirs.

-- 
         "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                              wes@softweyr.com