Thanks (really!)

Auke Kok sofar at lunar-linux.org
Wed May 25 05:50:46 UTC 2005


w9ya at arrl.net wrote:
> Hey Zbig and the gang;
> 
> Sadly most of the smaller distros I pay attention to are doing the same
> thing, i.e. it will be hard for you to find one that doesn't remove
> contributors names. I do not pretend to understand why, as this is a
> complete reversal from the policies that Linux and related software was
> developed with in the early days.
> 
> Conversely the "first tier" distros like Mandriva and such ALL maintain a
> contributors name for ALL contributions including changes related to
> de-bugging. In fact they will *NOT* accept anything that is anonymous, nor
> will they EVER strip such information.
> 
> I *think* I know what this all means, but I will leave it up to the reader
> to form their own opinion.

You'll be happy to know then that we have started to retain any relevant 
contributor info then. hth,

sofar


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