On Tue, 28 May 1996, Paul Richards wrote:
> In reply to Brian Behlendorf who said
> >
> > brian 96/05/27 13:34:51
> >
> > Added: src mod_info.c
> > Log:
> > Submitted by: Brian Behlendorf
> > Obtained from: Rasmus Lerdorf
>
> Umm, that's not quite how those lines are meant to be used.
>
> Submitted by: Rasmus Lerdorf
>
> would have been correct, it's obvious you're the one committing it because
> there's a line with your name in it. The "Obtained from:" line is to
> attribute sources you grab code from such as NCSA or something without
> them actually "submitting" it to you. We added the "Obtained from" line
> because the NetBSD folks always used to complain when we nicked fixes from
> them and didn't attribute them for it in the commit message.
Okay, sounds right, my apologies.
Brian
