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fakeroot-ng is copyright (c) 2007-2009,2013 by Shachar Shemesh
Project's home page is at http://fakeroot-ng.lingnu.com
Special thanks goes to Bernhard R. Link for insisting that things be better
than "good enough".
Thanks should also go to Tyler Larson, for saying "I need this fixed, so I'll
pay for your time". The true open source model at work.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Contact Shachar at shachar@debian.org. Commercial support is available through
Shachar's company, Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Sir Izik Newton
Himself quoting the great men of the renaissance
Fakeroot Next Generation was written by Shachar Shemesh, in his spare time
(such that there is). Fakeroot NextGen is a clean reimplementation, and no code
was taken from previous implementations. It is based on a completely different
technology, and therefor does not suffer from the other implementations
limitations (but probably has its own unique ones).
The idea behind fakeroot ng has been around long before it came around. The
first implementation, as far as we could find, is called "fakeroot". It can be
found at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/fakeroot/. It lists Joost Witteveen,
Clint Adams and Timo Savola as the authors. Its functionality, as well as its
limitations, have been the inspiration that brought fakeroot-ng to be.
The original fakeroot's limitations were also the trigger that brought another
project about. Called "fakechroot", written by Piotr Roszatycki, home dir at
http://fakechroot.alioth.debian.org/, it attempts to overcome one of fakeroot's
main limitation - its inability to catch the open(2) system call, and therefor
its inability to emulate the "chroot" environment. It does not, however, change
the core technology used, and therefor has limitations over how complete the
environment is. It is hoped that as fakeroot-ng progresses, we can eliminate
all of the limitations.