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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 18:59:37 +0200
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFilter not free software?
Message-ID:  <20010524185937.A69030@lpt.ens.fr>
In-Reply-To: <3B0D3203.8A462906@pitt.edu>; from pfg1%2B@pitt.edu on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:08:35PM -0400
References:  <20010524122010.C52234@lpt.ens.fr> <3B0D3203.8A462906@pitt.edu>

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> Quoting LWN:
> > 
> >   That means, of course, that IPFilter is not free (or even open source)
> >   software.
> > 
> I'm sorry for RMS... but free software is software I don't have to pay
> for. 

Irrelevant.  FreeBSD should be modifiable, and modifications should be
distributable.  If the author of IPfilter will not allow
modifications, I certainly see it as a problem (and so, according to
that article, do the OpenBSD people) for obvious reasons.

> Don't tell me he also invented freedom! I like free beer, and in this
> case it comes with source code.

Does it?  Which one?  (assuming, by source code, you mean the detailed
recipe and method which lets you brew it yourself)

- Rahul.

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