Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751240AbWIWPci (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:32:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751241AbWIWPci (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:32:38 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:62599 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751240AbWIWPch (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:32:37 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Oleg Verych Subject: Re: The GPL: No shelter for the Linux kernel? Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.194.180.30 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2033 Lines: 51 On 2006-09-22, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, David Schwartz wrote: >> >> This is probably going to be controversial, but Linus should seriously [...] > > I don't actually want people to need to trust anybody - and that very much > includes me - implicitly. > > I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly > because they know they don't _have_ to. And somebody chooses anoter license, f.e see: linux/drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c > > Now, I could have done it all directly on the Linux-kernel mailing list, > but let's face it, that would just have caused a long discussion and we'd > not have really been any better off anyway. So instead, I did > > git log | grep -i signed-off-by: | > cut -d: -f2- | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | less -S > > which anybody else can do on their copy of their git repository, and I > just picked the first screenful of people (and Alan. And later we added > three more people after somebody pointed out that some top people use Alan *is on top* of (old fashioned, gitless): $ for i in `find linux/drivers/` do dd count=1 <$i | grep @ | sed 's_[^<]*<\(.*@.*\)>[^>]*_\1_g' done | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | most And what about linux/CREDITS ? Creating (even in the past) is also worth. As Adrian Bunk noted, there are may who contibuted, still CREDITS has reasonable size. Search above && grep in CREDITS 50 / 50 from the git logs would be better ;D. I would, say H. Peter Anvin, Vojtech Pavlik, Patrick Mochel, Pavel Machek are also major contributors. Cheers, guys ! [i usually do credit search on stuff i read in the kernel, so that is IMHO] -o--=O`C 5 years ago TT and WTC7 were assassinated. #oo'L O Learn more how (tm) <___=E M - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/