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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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