From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew C Aitchison <a.c.aitchison@ntlworld.com>
Cc: devel@xfree86.org, forum@xfree86.org,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Re: [forum] Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license.
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:24:04 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1075587843.4547.98.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401311258330.4585-100000@ard.bishopscourt>
> "The Author" ?
> This is open source code; there may be 27 authors of the relevant file.
> In XFree86 code I wouldn't know how to find the author of a file without
> looking at that file. My {limited ,mis}understanding of clean room coding
> makes me wary of reading any source unless I know that its licence will
> allow me to do what I wish.
There is at least a maintainer and usually one person who did the
main work, and this (or these) name(s) can usually be found in the
file's head comment. Also, fbdev authors/maintainers usually hang
around the linux fbdev mailing list. You could have tried to
contact them at least ;)
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-31 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20040131113753.GA19133@iliana>
2004-01-31 13:06 ` Re: [forum] Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license Andrew C Aitchison
2004-01-31 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-02-01 22:33 ` Ryan Underwood
2004-02-02 11:41 ` Sven Luther
2004-02-02 13:13 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-02-02 16:04 ` Sven Luther
2004-02-02 13:59 ` Dr Andrew C Aitchison
2004-02-02 16:11 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Sven Luther
[not found] <20040129115838.A70069@xfree86.org>
[not found] ` <1075423804.12536.28.camel@gaston>
[not found] ` <16410.33783.236964.200047@xf11.fra.suse.de>
2004-01-30 17:32 ` Sven Luther
2004-01-30 19:25 ` Egbert Eich
2004-01-30 22:29 ` Sven Luther
2004-01-31 9:10 ` Andrew C Aitchison
2004-01-31 11:37 ` Sven Luther
2004-01-31 22:07 ` Ryan Underwood
2004-01-31 21:48 ` Mark Vojkovich
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