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Todd C. Miller
1999-08-24 16:43:17 +00:00
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@@ -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: