From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 23 19: 3:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A067F37B41E for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:03:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 47211 invoked by uid 100); 24 Apr 2002 02:03:06 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15558.4697.740506.455174@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:03:05 -0500 To: kudzu@tenebras.com Cc: pjklist@ekahuna.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory In-Reply-To: <3CC5FD0E.7020908@tenebras.com> References: <20020423235147062.AAA735@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> <15557.63103.194310.947011@guru.mired.org> <3CC5FD0E.7020908@tenebras.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.52 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <3CC5FD0E.7020908@tenebras.com>, Michael Sierchio typed: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <20020423235147062.AAA735@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>, Philip J. Koenig typed: > >>Mike Meyer wrote: > >>>>The rationale for inclusion in the base system as opposed to ports > >>>>has usually been licensing issues. > >>>By some odd quirk, I've never heard any such rationale. > >>The two examples I can think of off the top of my head are bash and > >>apache. > > Neither of those is in the base system. > OpenSSL is. And it was excluded until Sept. 2000. Right. It was kept out of the base system for licensing reasons. It was included because it was decided that ssh was part of a complete system, and OpenSSH needs OpenSSL. I'm still looking for an example of something that was made part of the system for licensing reasons. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message