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Credit and Free Software

Posted by michael on from the where-it's-due dept.

Hans Reiser - you're thinking ReiserFS, and you'd be right - has a proposal to slather Free Software with credits for its authors. Good? Bad? This is something the community has generally moved away from, but maybe Reiser has a good point. Newsforge is part of OSDN.

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  1. Re:My dick itches. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Moot point by Blaine+Hilton · · Score: 0, Troll
    This seems like a good idea on the surface, but in reality I'm not sure if it would work. With open source software you can't really go to any specific entity and demand that they provide bios on every developer. Some developers don't even want to be connected with a project, let alone having detailed biography of them. They probably already are receiving thousands (if not millions) of emails/mail/calls asking for support related questions to the point of harassment.

    However if the developer would like credit then they could release the software under a modified license that would require the display of their bios. Already a lot of the open source projects have some information on different contributors on the project's website. I would think maybe creating something like this in the Help-->About, or man pages type area may be a good compromise.

    As for the BSD license change, I think that's like comparing apples to oranges, because it seems like they did that more for the university and not for any actual developers.

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  3. I sure don't like those lame distros by exa · · Score: 0, Troll

    That replace the KDE logos. A bunch of lamers trying to pretend as if it's their shit. It's not.

    Fuckings to them.

    --
    --exa--
  4. Bah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hans Reiser is ego propelled - not free software.

  5. Re: IN DEMOCRATIQ IRAQ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    hans REISER next information minister will be YOU!!!