Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:49:33 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Joachim Str?mbergson <watchman@ludd.ltu.se> Subject: Re: Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system? Message-ID: <20050720204932.GA2487@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <f34ca13c050720133226df4ffb@mail.gmail.com> References: <42DCC503.5000408@ludd.ltu.se> <20050719213356.GA1614@gothmog.gr> <f34ca13c050720133226df4ffb@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2005-07-20 16:32, "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com> wrote: >On 19/07/05, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote: >>On 2005-07-19 11:16, Joachim Str?mbergson <watchman@ludd.ltu.se> wrote: >>> >>> My thought was to sync/import the sudo implementation from OpenBSD. Bad >>> idea? >> >> Maybe not so bad if the OpenBSD version of sudo has useful enhancements >> of any sort (i.e. has gone through a thorough security audit, or it >> includes features that are not available through the Ports version, >> or if the OpenBSD sudo uses a BSD and not an ISC-style license). > > <URL:http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html>: > > The ISC copyright is functionally equivalent to a two-term BSD copyright with language removed that is made unnecessary by the Berne convention. This is the preferred license for new code incorporated into OpenBSD. A sample license is included in the source tree as /usr/src/share/misc/license.template. > > What's the reason that you'd prefer a BSD-licence over ISC-style licence? The reason was I happened to be behind a very slow connection when I replied and had not checked the license myself yet. Thanks for the clarification though. I've already looked at: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/sudo/LICENSE Thanks, Giorgos
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