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+# OpenRC History
+
+This history of OpenRC was written by Daniel Robbins, Roy Marples, William
+Hubbs and others.
+
+The Gentoo modular init scripts were developed by Daniel Robbins for Gentoo
+Linux 1.0_rc6 during most of 2001 and released in September 2001. After their
+development, the dependency-based init script system was maintained by a
+number of senior developers, starting with Azarah (Martin Schlemmer), with
+migration to the new init system assisted by Woodchip (Donnie Davies) who
+converted all ebuild init scripts to work with the new system. As Grant
+Goodyear notes: 
+
+"My recollection is that one of woodchip's more impressive early feats
+was the complete replacement of all of the init scripts in Portage
+for Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc6. Through 1.0_rc5 Gentoo had used fairly
+standard rc scripts modified from Stampede Linux, but for 1.0_rc6 Daniel
+Robbins (drobbins) and Martin Schlemmer (azarah) had created a new
+dependency-based init script system that is still used today. Within a
+span of days Donny rewrote every single init script in the Portage tree
+and committed new masked packages to await the release of 1.0_rc6. Thanks to
+woodchip (and drobbins and azarah, of course) the
+transition to the new init scripts was nearly painless." [1] 
+
+Roy Marples became a Gentoo/Linux developer in 2004 and wrote the modular
+network scripts for the Gentoo baselayout package. Towards the end of 2005,
+he became the primary maintainer for baselayout and the init scripts. 
+
+At the start of 2007, He announced the ongoing development of
+baselayout-2, containing a rewritten core coded in C and allowing POSIX sh
+init scripts instead of forcing the use of bash. By mid 2007, He had
+re-implemented the Gentoo init script design created by Daniel Robbins,
+using an entirely new code base. Alpha and pre-release baselayout-2
+snapshots were added to Gentoo's Portage tree as an optional component.
+
+Toward the end of 2007, Roy retired as a Gentoo developer.
+Baselayout-2 was still in the pre stage, and aside from the gentoo-fbsd
+users, it was masked. However, He desired to keep the baselayout-2
+project moving forward as an independent project. The Gentoo Council
+permitted Him to release OpenRC under the 2-clause BSD license,
+managed by him as an external project. 
+
+Around mid-2010, Roy decided to no longer maintain OpenRC. At this
+point, he transferred development back to Gentoo.
+
+William Hubbs, and several other Gentoo developers,  started working on
+OpenRC around this point and brought OpenRC-0.8.x to Gentoo Linux's stable
+tree in 2011.
+
+In 2013 the OpenRC team became independent from Gentoo again and moved primary
+development to github.
+
+Daniel Robbins continues to maintain an independent, forked
+version of OpenRC for Funtoo Linux, which includes a Funtoo-specific network
+configuration system. 
+
+[1] http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20040426-newsletter.xml