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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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