From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 21 12:54:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA26032 for security-outgoing; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 12:54:16 -0700 Received: from puli.cisco.com (puli.cisco.com [171.69.1.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA26027 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 12:54:15 -0700 Received: from localhost.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by puli.cisco.com (8.6.8+c/8.6.5) with SMTP id MAA16651; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 12:53:06 -0700 Message-Id: <199509211953.MAA16651@puli.cisco.com> To: John Capo Cc: avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP Filter version 2.8 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Sep 1995 15:52:00 EDT." <199509211952.PAA10417@irbs.irbs.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 12:53:06 -0700 From: Paul Traina Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Ah, it seems that the world may have changed again. I thought Darren had made it shareware. Paul From: John Capo Subject: Re: IP Filter version 2.8 Paul Traina writes: > > Should we be incorporating Darren's new code into FreeBSD? It makes > more sense to do that than to continue with Ugen's work on top of > the old code. I hacked it into the kernel last night. Its pretty nice. Good logging, test suite, no console printf's. I vote yes. > > However, I know that Darren has license issues that need to be resolved. > Is there some way we can get this good code into the base distribution of > FreeBSD in a fashion that will be acceptable to both him and us? > I don't see that in his license. /* * (C)opyright 1993, 1994, 1995 by Darren Reed. * * The author accepts no responsibility for the use of this software and * provides it on an ``as is'' basis without express or implied warranty. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted * provided that this notice is preserved and due credit is given * to the original author and the contributors. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * * I hate legaleese, don't you ? */ John Capo