Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 17:38:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Tulloch <andrew@cosa.uk-legal.net> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well Message-ID: <20010531173818.C41422@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105301719260.9469-100000@cosa.uk-legal.net>; from andrew@cosa.uk-legal.net on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:20:51PM %2B0100 References: <04a401c0e917$a968a120$931576d8@inethouston.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105301719260.9469-100000@cosa.uk-legal.net>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 30 May 2001 at 17:20:51 +0100, Andrew Tulloch wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >> On Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:44 AM, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Someone on irc mentioned that something like ipf that cannot be modified >> should go into the ports. Not my personal belief, but I thought I would >> relay it anyhow. > > If you take a look at the cvs commit logs e.g. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/ip_fil.h > > you'll notice its Darren himself who does virtually all the commits on the > ipf code in the FreeBSD tree, I'm going to assume he gave himself > permisson :) Much more to the point, he didn't do *all* the commits. I think this indicates his viewpoint on the matter. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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