From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 10 16:01:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14280 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 16:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero.simon-shapiro.org.142.69.207.in-addr.arpa [207.69.142.25] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA14081 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 16:00:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 28757 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Jun 1998 00:02:44 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199806102006.NAA24467@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:02:44 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Jason Thorpe Subject: Re: Copyright infringement in FreeBSD/alpha Cc: core@netbsd.org, ross@netbsd.org, cgd@netbsd.org, core@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Jun-98 Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:37:09 -0500 (EST) > "John S. Dyson" wrote: > > > *smirk* I would appreciate credit for my shared VM space work in > > NetBSD also. Of course, the similarities in the code could be > > co-incedental, but it seems very unlikely. > > This is a MUCH more serious issue than "due credit in a commit message". > I seem to recall noting that the vmspace sharing code was somewhat based > on > FreeBSD's (although it is a little different, and the data structure were > more-or-less ready for it, and the implementation _is_ obvious) when I > committed it to the NetBSD source tree... but _I DID NOT INFRINGE ON > ANYONE'S COPYRIGHT_... that is the issue. > > John: So nice of you to reply in your typical "we love everyone" > warm-fuzzy > manner, rather than addressing the SERIOUS ISSUE of a FreeBSD developer > REMOVING copyright notices from code, copied _verbatim_ (right down to > the comments), REPLACING IT WITH HIS OWN. Hi Jason, I really do not know you. Just as much as I do not know most of the others, except for association by e-mail. I sent you a private note, proposing some cooperation between us on issues that will matter and benefit us both. Since I did not receive any reply, I was concerned maybe your e-mail was not working properly. I am glad to see that it does. Now that we have ``proof'' (albeit not legal proof) that your email does work, would you kindly relate to us your opinion of cooperating. I think I know your opinion on code sharing by now :-) Simon BTW, What is wrong with viewing the world with ``we love everyone'' attitude? I, for one love almost everyone. including you :-) Simon --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message