http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10303
------- Comment #4 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-03-16 19:41 PST ------- > I think it was Vladimir Dergachev who did a lot of the initial work, at least > from looking at the R300 Sourceforge site, but I expect that a lot of people > made significant contributions, so maybe the vendor string should be "Vladimir > Dergachev et al" or similar. It's correct that Vladimir wrote the original reverse engineering tools. Virtually all of the reverse engineering that was actually necessary to start the driver was done by me, however (some time in late 2004, I think), which is when I also started the driver. I discontinued my work on the driver because I ran into hard lockups that I just didn't understand. It's cool to see that other people continued the work to a point where I can use the driver today. I could claim that the driver is "mine" and it should be "Nicolai Hähnle et al", but that would be an insult to all the people who kept development going when I couldn't continue. Anything involving attribution in such a prominent place is just bound to cause hard feelings. I'd remove the name completely, but then people might confuse the driver with ATI's binary driver. Therefore, I suggest we replace it with "The DRI project", because that really describes it best. One can always put a list of authors where it really matters: in the source. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
