Subject: Re: copyright questions
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/13/1997 10:47:49
>I don't think that anyone from the OpenBSD project is in much of a position to
>take the moral high ground here. After all, one of the things that motivated
>this license change is that an OpenBSD developer stripped Chris' name and
>copyright off some Alpha toolchain code and submitted it to the FSF. Oh, but
>I suppose wanting your name not to be stripped out of code you've written is
>evil NetBSD source hoarding, too?
Actually, to be correct, that happened _after_ I changed my license,
not before.
It was coincidence, not cause. However, it was a very ... interesting
occurrence, even if it was accidental (as the developer claimed, but
which is hard to understand given the scope and precise details of the
changes involved).
cgd