From f4f46ff024887252315f772db28844bcdd3ae1b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:43:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update the history of sudo --- HISTORY | 26 +++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 3ba11e2ed..d0c9bf8f5 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -11,15 +11,23 @@ with an enhanced sudoers format. This version was bought by a consulting firm called "The Root Group" and released under the GNU public license. -In 1996, Todd Miller, who had been maintaining sudo for several -years in his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella -of his consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting. Courtesan remains -committed to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as -well as continued development of the sudo 1.x code base. As of -version 1.6, Sudo no longer contains any of the original "Root -Group" code and is available with a BSD-style license. As there -has been no public release of Sudo from the "Root Group" I've dropped -the `CU' from the name. +In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally withing CU-Boulder for +some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version +1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems. The +"CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from +"The Root Group". + +In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in +his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella of his +consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting. Courtesan remains committed +to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as well as +continued development of the sudo 1.x code base. + +In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has +been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991 +(the original authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo +no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is +available with a BSD-style license. sudo, in its current form, is maintained by: -- 2.49.0