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-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