From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: Re: [forum] Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license. Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:24:04 +1100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1075587843.4547.98.camel@gaston> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1An3Zn-0000SL-Qo for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:26:55 -0800 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57] ident=root) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30) id 1An3Zn-0004Tq-BC for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:26:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Andrew C Aitchison Cc: devel@xfree86.org, forum@xfree86.org, Linux Fbdev development list > "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. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn