From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 6 15:44:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F8B37B405 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:44:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12110; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:44:06 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020106163320.00dc1960@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:41:56 -0700 To: art@pilikia.net From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Could someone commit the change suggested in PR bin/32420? Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200201061201390130.478F5325@smtp> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020105145152.01cbc100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20020105005950.00db4f00@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20020105145152.01cbc100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:01 PM 1/6/2002, Arthur W. Neilson III wrote: >recently we setup msyslog-1.08a on a number of freebsd and solaris >based boxes, syslogging to a mysql backend. I'd be concerned about the overhead of a full-fledged SQL database.... Seems like overkill to me. Also, I believe that "msyslog" and "mySQL" are both GPLed. No commercial programmer can safely look GPLed code, because if he does so he may later be sued for creating a "derivative work" if he writes something containing similar algorithms or functionality. Thus, we could only use such software as a "black box;" if there were a bug, we couldn't fix it due to the risk of GPL contamination. We'd rather use code that's licensed under a truly free (TF) license, such as the BSD License. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message