[RFC: patch] move acknowledgment for Mark Adler to CREDITS

[RFC: patch] move acknowledgment for Mark Adler to CREDITS

[Adrian Bunk]

The place in the documentation of the Linux kernel to acknowledge 
contributions is the CREDITS file.

Give Mark Adler an entry there instead of including a string in the 
kernel image.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

---

 CREDITS                     |    5 +++++
 lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c |    9 ---------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3-full/lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c.old	2006-04-18 22:31:47.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3-full/lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c	2006-04-18 22:33:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -8,15 +8,6 @@
 
 #define MAXBITS 15
 
-const char inflate_copyright[] =
-   " inflate 1.2.3 Copyright 1995-2005 Mark Adler ";
-/*
-  If you use the zlib library in a product, an acknowledgment is welcome
-  in the documentation of your product. If for some reason you cannot
-  include such an acknowledgment, I would appreciate that you keep this
-  copyright string in the executable of your product.
- */
-
 /*
    Build a set of tables to decode the provided canonical Huffman code.
    The code lengths are lens[0..codes-1].  The result starts at *table,
--- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3-full/CREDITS.old	2006-04-19 00:21:59.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3-full/CREDITS	2006-04-19 00:27:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
 S: Iasi 6600
 S: Romania
 
+N: Mark Adler
+E: madler@alumni.caltech.edu
+W: http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~madler/
+D: zlib decompression
+
 N: Monalisa Agrawal
 E: magrawal@nortelnetworks.com
 D: Basic Interphase 5575 driver with UBR and ABR support.