From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 21 17:11:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA06153 for security-outgoing; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 17:11:28 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA06140 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 17:11:23 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.34]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id RAA00804; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 17:09:59 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id RAA00191; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 17:12:25 -0700 Message-Id: <199509220012.RAA00191@corbin.Root.COM> To: John Capo cc: pst@cisco.com (Paul Traina), avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP Filter version 2.8 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Sep 95 15:52:00 EDT." <199509211952.PAA10417@irbs.irbs.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 17:12:11 -0700 Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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. It used to be restricted so that people couldn't use it commercially. I spent several rounds of email with him trying to convince him to change it. It looks as though I was successful (although I didn't know it until now). Cool! :-) -DG