| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:45:21 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 08:09:19AM -0400, Will Dyson wrote:
> My interpretation of "the OpenBSD version" would be "We yoinked this from
> the OpenBSD CVS tree". And if any changes were made to pax in the OpenBSD
> tree since OpenBSD forked, then I think it makes sense to identify it as
> "the OpenBSD version" of the code (as it may be different from the version
> in the {Net|Free}BSD CVS).
Perhaps, but the exact wording suggests that Keith Muller wrote it
for OpenBSD. (He didn't.)
> Of course, I don't know if any such changes were made to pax since the fork.
Well, see for yourself:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/pax/
The differences are largely typographical, and the important stuff
(strlcpy() usage, similar bits) was also committed to the NetBSD
tree. (itojun develops on both.)
Some are totally needless changes (deraadt's various "uglies", which
typically seem to mean "I think this output should look MY way!",
though I haven't looked at the diffs for these specifically).
> Perhaps it would be best if the description said "Originally by Keith
> Muller", or something to that effect.
Ayup. Also, it'd be good (in fact, it'd be *legal*) to give credit
to UC San Diego, being as they own the copyright.
> I suggest you take it up with the Debian maintainer for the pax
> package, who's address can be found here:
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> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/pax.html
Would if I cared.
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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net
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