1 List of the authors of code contained in BusyBox.
3 If you have code in BusyBox, you should be listed here. If you should be
4 listed, or the description of what you have done needs more detail, or is
5 incorrect, _please_ let me know.
11 Peter Willis <psyphreak@phreaker.net>
14 Emanuele Aina <emanuele.aina@tiscali.it>
17 Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
18 Tons of new stuff, major rewrite of most of the
19 core apps, tons of new apps as noted in header files.
20 Lots of tedious effort writing these boring docs that
21 nobody is going to actually read.
23 Laurence Anderson <l.d.anderson@warwick.ac.uk>
24 rpm2cpio, unzip, get_header_cpio, read_gz interface, rpm
26 Jeff Angielski <jeff@theptrgroup.com>
29 Enrik Berkhan <Enrik.Berkhan@inka.de>
32 Jim Bauer <jfbauer@nfr.com>
33 modprobe shell dependency
35 Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
36 expr, hostid, logname, whoami
38 John Beppu <beppu@codepoet.org>
41 David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
44 Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
47 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
50 Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
51 more(v2), makedevs, dutmp, modularization, auto links file,
52 various fixes, Linux Router Project maintenance
54 Jordan Crouse <jordan@cosmicpenguin.net>
57 Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
59 insmod powerpc support
61 Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>
62 pristine source directory compilation, lots of patches and fixes.
64 Glenn Engel <glenne@engel.org>
67 Gennady Feldman <gfeldman@gena01.com>
68 Sysklogd (single threaded syslogd, IPC Circular buffer support,
69 logread), various fixes.
71 Robert Griebl <sandman@handhelds.org>
72 modprobe, hwclock, suid/sgid handling, tinylogin integration
73 many bugfixes and enhancements
75 Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
76 cp_mv.c, the test suite, various fixes to utility.c, &c.
78 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
81 Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>
82 documentation, bugfixes, test suite
84 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
85 Became busybox maintainer in 2006.
87 sed (major rewrite in 2003, and I now maintain the thing)
88 bunzip2 (complete from-scratch rewrite, then mjn3 optimized the result)
89 sort (more or less from scratch rewrite in 2004, I now maintain it)
90 mount (rewrite in 2005, I maintain the new one)
92 Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net>
93 ipcalc, Red Hat equivalence
95 John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
98 Glenn McGrath <bug1@iinet.net.au>
99 Common unarchiving code and unarchiving applets, ifupdown, ftpgetput,
100 nameif, sed, patch, fold, install, uudecode.
101 Various bugfixes, review and apply numerous patches.
103 Manuel Novoa III <mjn3@codepoet.org>
104 cat, head, mkfifo, mknod, rmdir, sleep, tee, tty, uniq, usleep, wc, yes,
105 mesg, vconfig, nice, renice,
106 make_directory, parse_mode, dirname, mode_string,
107 get_last_path_component, simplify_path, and a number trivial libbb routines
109 also bug fixes, partial rewrites, and size optimizations in
110 ash, basename, cal, cmp, cp, df, du, echo, env, ln, logname, md5sum, mkdir,
111 mv, realpath, rm, sort, tail, touch, uname, watch, arith, human_readable,
112 interface, dutmp, ifconfig, route
114 Vladimir Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru>
115 cmdedit; bb_mkdep, xargs(current), httpd(current);
116 ports: ash, crond, fdisk, inetd, stty, traceroute, top;
117 locale, various fixes
118 and irreconcilable critic of everything not perfect.
120 Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>
121 Original author of BusyBox in 1995, 1996. Some of his code can
122 still be found hiding here and there...
124 Rodney Radford <rradford@mindspring.com>
127 Tim Riker <Tim@Rikers.org>
128 bug fixes, member of fan club
130 Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>
131 reset, tons and tons of bug reports and patches.
133 Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>, <crosenth@covad.com>
134 wget - Contributed by permission of Covad Communications
136 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
137 Lots of bugs fixes and patches.
139 Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
140 Remote logging feature for syslogd
142 Rob Sullivan <cogito.ergo.cogito@gmail.com>
146 mkswap, fsck.minix, mkfs.minix
148 Mark Whitley <markw@codepoet.org>
149 grep, sed, cut, xargs(previous),
150 style-guide, new-applet-HOWTO, bug fixes, etc.
152 Charles P. Wright <cpwright@villagenet.com>
153 gzip, mini-netcat(nc)
155 Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
156 tarcat (since removed), loadkmap, various fixes, Debian maintenance
158 Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it>
159 devfsd and size optimizations in strings, openvt, chvt, deallocvt, hdparm,
160 fdformat, lsattr, chattr, id and eject.
162 Paul Fox <pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us>
163 vi editing mode for ash, various other patches/fixes
165 Roberto A. Foglietta <me@roberto.foglietta.name>