RE: [IPCop-devel] Remove Smoothwall Credits!

[Joe M. <mat...@ro...>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 Ste...@bm... wrote:

> I agree with you, even though I don't like the way RM handles things, h=
e
> (and others with him) have built the basis that ipcop 0.1.x is built up=
on,
> it is morally correct that we acknowledge him and the others involved. =
WHEN
> we produce a version of ipcop that is not build upon ANY original smoot=
hwall
> code then we can remove him from the credits. We do not want to stoop t=
o
> their level. We SHOULD acknowledge them. The quicker we build out own
> complete version the better.

I dont particularly buy the idea that there is any compelling moral (as
opposed to a lawyer avoidance) reason to put the Smoothwall credits in
there. If the idea is to umh, express gratitude to the folks upon whose
shoulders IPcop stands, I think it appropriate to give credit to the folk=
s
that did all the real heavy lifting. As a start:

Linux kernel:
Linus Torvalds
Alan Cox

Apache:
Brian Behlendorf=20
Roy T. Fielding=20
Rob Hartill=20
David Robinson=20
Cliff Skolnick=20
Randy Terbush=20
Robert S. Thau=20
Andrew Wilson=20
Eric Hagberg=20
Frank Peters=20
Nicolas Pioch =20
Brandon Long=20
Beth Frank
Rob Hartill
David Robinson
=20
OpenSSH:
Tatu Yl=F6nen
Bj=F6rn Gr=F6nvall=20
Theo de Raadt=20
Niels Provos=20
Markus Friedl=20
Bob Beck=20
Aaron Campbell=20
Dug Song=20
Damien Miller
Philip Hands


Gee, This could be educational :-) =20


Hey, I'll even volunteer to hunt down more and type it into a credits pag=
e
if Mark etc. would like :-)



Joe Matuscak
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