List of the authors of code contained in BusyBox. If you have code in BusyBox, you should be listed here. If you should be listed, or the description of what you have done needs more detail, or is incorrect, _please_ let me know. -Erik ----------- Peter Willis <psyphreak@phreaker.net> eject Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@tiscali.it> run-parts Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> Tons of new stuff, major rewrite of most of the core apps, tons of new apps as noted in header files. Lots of tedious effort writing these boring docs that nobody is going to actually read. Laurence Anderson <l.d.anderson@warwick.ac.uk> rpm2cpio, unzip, get_header_cpio, read_gz interface, rpm Jeff Angielski <jeff@theptrgroup.com> ftpput, ftpget Enrik Berkhan <Enrik.Berkhan@inka.de> setconsole Jim Bauer <jfbauer@nfr.com> modprobe shell dependency Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> expr, hostid, logname, whoami John Beppu <beppu@codepoet.org> du, nslookup, sort David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> zcip Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> tiny-ls(ls) Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> fbset, ping, hostname Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> more(v2), makedevs, dutmp, modularization, auto links file, various fixes, Linux Router Project maintenance Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net> ipcalc Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> tftp client insmod powerpc support Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov> pristine source directory compilation, lots of patches and fixes. Glenn Engel <glenne@engel.org> httpd Gennady Feldman <gfeldman@gena01.com> Sysklogd (single threaded syslogd, IPC Circular buffer support, logread), various fixes. Robert Griebl <sandman@handhelds.org> modprobe, hwclock, suid/sgid handling, tinylogin integration many bugfixes and enhancements Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org> cp_mv.c, the test suite, various fixes to utility.c, &c. Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> mktemp.c Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu> documentation, bugfixes, test suite Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Became busybox maintainer in 2006. sed (major rewrite in 2003, and I now maintain the thing) bunzip2 (complete from-scratch rewrite, then mjn3 optimized the result) sort (more or less from scratch rewrite in 2004, I now maintain it) mount (rewrite in 2005, I maintain the new one) Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net> ipcalc, Red Hat equivalence John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com> tr Glenn McGrath <glenn.l.mcgrath@gmail.com> Common unarchiving code and unarchiving applets, ifupdown, ftpgetput, nameif, sed, patch, fold, install, uudecode. Various bugfixes, review and apply numerous patches. Manuel Novoa III <mjn3@codepoet.org> cat, head, mkfifo, mknod, rmdir, sleep, tee, tty, uniq, usleep, wc, yes, mesg, vconfig, nice, renice, make_directory, parse_mode, dirname, mode_string, get_last_path_component, simplify_path, and a number trivial libbb routines also bug fixes, partial rewrites, and size optimizations in ash, basename, cal, cmp, cp, df, du, echo, env, ln, logname, md5sum, mkdir, mv, realpath, rm, sort, tail, touch, uname, watch, arith, human_readable, interface, dutmp, ifconfig, route Vladimir Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> cmdedit; bb_mkdep, xargs(current), httpd(current); ports: ash, crond, fdisk (initial, unmaintained now), inetd, stty, traceroute, top; locale, various fixes and irreconcilable critic of everything not perfect. Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> Original author of BusyBox in 1995, 1996. Some of his code can still be found hiding here and there... Rodney Radford <rradford@mindspring.com> ipcs, ipcrm Tim Riker <Tim@Rikers.org> bug fixes, member of fan club Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com> reset, tons and tons of bug reports and patches. Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>, <crosenth@covad.com> wget - Contributed by permission of Covad Communications Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Lots of bugs fixes and patches. Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com> Remote logging feature for syslogd Rob Sullivan <cogito.ergo.cogito@gmail.com> comm Linus Torvalds mkswap, fsck.minix, mkfs.minix Linus Walleij fbset and fbsplash config RGBA parsing rewrite of mdev helper to create devices from /sys/dev Mark Whitley <markw@codepoet.org> grep, sed, cut, xargs(previous), style-guide, new-applet-HOWTO, bug fixes, etc. Charles P. Wright <cpwright@villagenet.com> gzip, mini-netcat(nc) Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> tarcat (since removed), loadkmap, various fixes, Debian maintenance Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it> devfsd and size optimizations in strings, openvt, chvt, deallocvt, hdparm, fdformat, lsattr, chattr, id and eject. Paul Fox <pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us> vi editing mode for ash, various other patches/fixes Roberto A. Foglietta <me@roberto.foglietta.name> port: dnsd Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> misc Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> initial e2fsprogs, printenv, setarch, sum, misc Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com> fixed two bugs in msh and hush (exitcode of killed processes)