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Interview with NetBSD Developer Hubert Feyrer

Posted by michael on from the daemon-spotting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NetBSD-PT User Group did an interview via e-mail with Hubert Feyrer. He has been a NetBSD developer for years and we wanted to know his views on NetBSD, his projects and some personal questions. He talks about the origin of pkgsrc and the g4u - g4l issue."

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  1. g4u/g4l for the lazy. by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Interesting
    tfa sez:
    "g4u is a single floppy that contains a NetBSD kernel with a RAM disk . . . which can upload the whole harddisk (or only partitions) to a FTP server, and restore it later on.
    ...<snip>...
    I had an unpleasant encounter with some people from the "g4l" project recently, which copied my (g4u) code, removed both my name and the license (BSD) I put g4u under, and re-distributed it under their own license (GPL). "

    He subsequently links to http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4l.html for an analysis of this infringement.

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  2. Not the first time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I know of two other programs which also stole BSD code (in one case) and Apache code (in another case). They simply removed the credits and license and put their own name and the GPL in its place! Fortunately both of those projects are dead now.