From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 00:09:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA11568 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA11563 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA29321; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709120703.AAA29321@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Nate Williams Cc: John-Mark Gurney , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PnP support Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:03:37 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:03:01 -0600 (MDT) Nate Williams wrote: > The NetBSD folks don't allow access to their repository. Last I heard, > it was both politically and legally a problem to do that, given that > they're tree is (was?) still based on the old 4.4BSD Lite code, which is > arguably 'tainted'. They've since converted their releases to use > Lite2, but by making their CVS tree public it could cause problems. Uhh... 4.4BSD-Lite is perfectly safe in the context you're describing. As I said in a previous mail on the subject, there are a number of reasons why it's not publicly available, none of which are really appropriate for discussion on this list. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: +1 415 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 415 428 6939