From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 30 10:39:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from veldy.net (w028.z064001117.msp-mn.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.117.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6308037B42C for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 10:39:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veldy@veldy.net) Received: from HP2500B (fuggle.veldy.net [64.1.117.28]) by veldy.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C03F0BAAD for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 12:38:59 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <014001c0e92f$00559f80$3028680a@tgt.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:36:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 So, I can go form my own project called VeldyBSD and I can modify the IPFilter code all that I want based on, let us say, FreeBSD 4.3? That is the basic premise of the BSD license (and by inference the *BSD OS) principal, if not in practice. This even applies to the GPL. Does it apply to the license granted with IPFilter? Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Barton" To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well > "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: > > > > It is being pulled from OpenBSD for what seems like a pretty good reason to > > me. > > > > This is really quite sad as IPFilter really is a nice piece of software. > > What's sad is that people who don't understand the issues involved are > jumping on bandwagons that they shouldn't. Darren and the FreeBSD core team > are already in the process of clarifying that FreeBSD's use of IPfilter is > "with permission," and therefore falls within the parameters of the > license. > > Doug > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message