Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:31:26 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well Message-ID: <3B16015E.CFE423DA@i-clue.de> References: <005e01c0e913$0803a180$3028680a@tgt.com> <20010530183940.A3569@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <00c301c0e917$003b74b0$3028680a@tgt.com> <3B1519F4.E2671150@i-clue.de> <20010531174250.D41422@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey schrieb: > > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > This message contained so many replies in different directions that > I'm not sure I have restored the correct sequence. > > On Wednesday, 30 May 2001 at 18:04:04 +0200, Christoph Sold wrote: > > "Thomas T. Veldhouse" schrieb: > >> On Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:39 AM, "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> wrote: > >>> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:15:50 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > >>> > >>>> 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. > >> > >> 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. > > > > I disagree. IPF is part of the ports. Since we accept other beasts > > (even without source code access like netscape 4.x) to lurk in > > there. Thus, having ipf in FreeBSD ports does in no way conflict > > with the license of the base system. > > I'm not sure which system you're talking about here. We call it > IPFILTER in FreeBSD, and it's in the kernel source tree. If the worst > comes to the worst, we can move it to the ports, where you would be > correct, but I'm personally confident that we'll come to a > clarification which will leave it where it is. Greg is right, I stand corrected. Sorry about the confusion. -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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