Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:22:38 -0500 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well Message-ID: <002301c0e946$45b4c030$3028680a@tgt.com> References: <005e01c0e913$0803a180$3028680a@tgt.com> <20010530183940.A3569@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <00c301c0e917$003b74b0$3028680a@tgt.com> <20010530113714.E76217@rand.tgd.net>
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The compiler and binary utilities are GPL. As are many of the utilities such as groff. Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <ipf=good_product-license_needs_enema@tgd.net> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>; "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 1:37 PM Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well > <rant reasion="I've run into the ipf license before"> > I regularly use FreeBSD as the base for products/projects and > am a little erk'ed that ipf resides in the base system with a very > restrictive license that prevents me from using it. A large number of > clients that I have worked with in the past require the ability to > resell (or own 100%) binary versions of whatever solution I've created > (who-hoo government!). Cleaning out ipf from the source tree isn't > tough, but it's time consuming and ticks me off. Base BSD should have > the BSD license, yes? > </rant> > > With that in mind, I'm 200% in favor of moving it to the ports > tree, kernel source hooks and all. Cleaning out ipf from the source > tree last time wasn't tough, but not my idea of a picnic. > > > Nothing in that article has convinced me that FreeBSD developers can > > change the source at their will and distribute it -- according to > > the IPFilter licence. That right should be implicit in ALL FreeBSD > > system level source code. > > > > > > It is being pulled from OpenBSD for what seems like a pretty good > > > > reason to me. > > > > > > Please, see this message from Darren to NetBSD's current-users. > > > > > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2001/05/30/0004.html > > > > > > | I have cleared this up with core@netbsd.org and whilst they appear to > > > | be happy that any problems have been resolved, another effort is > > > | required so that core@netbsd.org can convey this to NetBSD users in a > > > | meaningful way. A similar message will also be sent to the FreeBSD > > > | people as I've also been working with core@freebsd.org to resolve any > > > | issues they had. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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