From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 21 05:04:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA16009 for current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 05:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail11.digital.com (mail11.digital.com [192.208.46.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA16002 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 05:04:02 -0700 (PDT) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com (cssmuc.frt.dec.com [16.186.96.161]) by mail11.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) with SMTP id HAA28626; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 07:54:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA25446; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:53:49 +0200 Message-Id: <9708211153.AA25446@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from John-Mark Gurney of Thu, 21 Aug 97 03:30:52 PDT. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: major problem with Copyright of contrib/ipfilter... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Aug 97 13:53:49 +0200 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk gurney_j@efn.org writes: > well.. I was about to fix a problem with contrib/ipfilter/man/Makefile, > but I read the copyright message at the top: > # (C)opyright 1993, 1994, 1995 by Darren Reed. > # > # This code may be freely distributed as long as it retains this notice > # and is not changed in any way. The author accepts no responsibility > # for the use of this software. I hate legaleese, don't you ? > > I'm sorry, but anything that we can't fix SHOULD NEVER be imported into > the tree... I'm going to rewrite the makefile for now... but can we > get all the copyright messages changed to the BSD copyright?? or at > least allow us to make modifications?? > > heck, all I was about to do was to replace root and wheel with MANOWN > and MANGRP, but this copyright doesn't allow it... > don't change it in contrib, do it in /usr/src/usr/sbin/. I think that's where the ipfilter stuff lives. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) garyj@muc.de (play) gj@freebsd.org