The author is unkown, it is not David Mosberger-Tang, Jim Paradies, Michael Schwingen or Jay Estabrook. I could not locate Bob Manson. An entry in RedHat's bugzilla yielded the following notice which I reproduce verbatim here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71437 --- shadow/71437 Tue Aug 13 13:22:49 2002 +++ shadow/71437.tmp.9824 Thu Aug 15 21:23:45 2002 @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Version: 7.1 Platform: alpha OS/Version: Linux -Status: NEW -Resolution: +Status: CLOSED +Resolution: WORKSFORME Severity: normal Priority: normal Component: aboot @@ -45,3 +45,9 @@ The reason is that I'd like to know the copyright and I am wrinting the man pages (which can be included in the next RH/Alpha release as well). +------- Additional comments from sopwith@redhat.com 2002-08-15 21:31:59 ------- +I can't track down a Bob Manson (and I cannot find any record of his association +with Red Hat in the aboot sources), but any work he did on behalf of Red Hat +would be property of Red Hat, and you can consider all our changes to be release +under the GPL the same as the rest of the aboot package. Helge Kreutzmann , September 4th 2002