[ I wrote this yesterday when I first saw Hans' message on -devel, but
postponed it to let the people who have actually had something to do
with this to speak up. But it seems that I was right when I assumed
people wouldn't really know what this is about. So, stamp a big FYI
on this post. Don't Cc me, I'll follow the discussion on -devel.
Thanks. ]
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 08:07:03PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Please explain your reasons for removing the credits and attributions
> from the reiserfs utilities in violation of our copyright.
Just for the benefit of people who don't have any idea what Hans is
talking about, the following text is printed by (upstream's but not
Debian's) mkreiserfs before exiting:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the
primary sponsor of Reiser4. DARPA does not endorse this project;
it merely sponsors it.
Continuing core development of version 3 is mostly paid for by
Hans Reiser from money made selling licenses in addition to the
GPL to companies who don't want it known that they use ReiserFS
as a foundation for their proprietary product. And my lawyer
asked 'People pay you money for this?'. Yup. Hee Hee. Life is
good. If you buy ReiserFS, you can focus on your value add
rather than reinventing an entire FS. You should buy some free
software too....
SuSE pays for continuing work on journaling for version 3, and
paid for much of the previous version 3 work. Reiserfs
integration in their distro is consistently solid.
MP3.com paid for initial journaling development.
Bigstorage.com contributes to our general fund every month, and
has done so for quite a long time.
Thanks to all of those sponsors, including the secret ones.
Without you, Hans would still have that day job, and the merry
band of hackers would be missing quite a few....
Have fun.
> In the academic world, this is called plagiarism. In the academic
> world, knowledge is shared but fairly credited. The GPL is born of
> the academic tradition.
JFTR:
plagiarism
n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else
and is presented as being your own work
2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as
if they were your own [syn: {plagiarization}, {plagiarisation},
{piracy}]
Marcelo
