Subject: Re: copyright questions
To: Phil Knaack <flipk@idea.exnet.iastate.edu>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/13/1997 09:35:58
> >On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:14:35 -0500 
> > "Phil Knaack" <flipk@idea.exnet.iastate.edu> wrote:
> 
> > > 	Of course, I see from looking at www.openbsd.org/alpha.html that 
> > > quite a lot of credit is given to him for OpenBSD/alpha, in fact very
> > > little is given to anyone else.
> 
> >...until very recently (after a case involving a snafu with some
> >NetBSD/alpha toolchain code), Chris was not mentioned on the OpenBSD/alpha
> >www page.
> 
> 	Until very recently, OpenBSD's alpha port wasn't even active --
> none of the developers even HAD alphas to work on.

Uh, if that's the case, then how has it been stated for _months_ on
their pages that people have been building snapshots of it?

You either don't have a clue here, or you're being intentionally
obtuse.


> 	The fact remains that the credit is there now.

Yes, but current actions alone do not indicate future behaviour.



cgd