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Date:      Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:41:56 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        art@pilikia.net
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Could someone commit the change suggested in PR bin/32420?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020106163320.00dc1960@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200201061201390130.478F5325@smtp>
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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


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