From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 10 13:10:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01804 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:10:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01146; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA14670; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:09:50 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:09:49 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "John S. Dyson" cc: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG, cgd@netbsd.org, ross@netbsd.org, core@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Copyright infringement in FreeBSD/alpha In-Reply-To: <199806101937.OAA09429@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > Jason Thorpe said: > > > > *smirk* I wonder how many other copyright infringements are contained > > within "FreeBSD's" alpha port... > > > *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 was an honest mistake Jason. I started both files from scratch at a time when I wasn't sure I could use any code from NetBSD/alpha. The NetBSD code came in during an 8 hour hacking session when I was getting the kernel to link and the copyrights got missed. Thanks for pointing it out so politely. I have added the relavent copyright to each of these files. If you see any other problems, be sure and let me know. A simple note by private email will suffice. > FreeBSD-alpha will definitely be a screamer though!!! :-). Since > FreeBSD is very server optimized anyway, the Alpha is a very > advantageous platform for us to support. There is NOTHING wrong > with giving credit where credit is due, and absolutely NO minuses. I have no idea what the performance will be since I haven't actually done much with it. I expect it to perform fairly well after tuning though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message