Re: Define "upstream"?
Hi,
"Sat, 4 Jun 2005 11:51:07 +0930", "Clytie Siddall"
"Define "upstream"?"
>Is "upstream", in fact, someone who can be quoted? Is this an
>organism of some kind?
Upstream means someone who developed/maintain "original"
software. For example, Apache/Apache2 package's upstream
is developers in apache.org (Apache Software Foundation).
So, in grsecurity2 pacakge, upstream is www.grsecurity.net.
And you can check it in copyright file as "Upstream Author(s):".
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