Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:56:18 -0500 From: "David W . Chapman Jr ." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFilter licence update Message-ID: <20010606195618.C47727@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <003f01c0eeeb$4d03bdf0$0101a8c0@cascade>; from veldy@veldy.net on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:46:34PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106061730440.94127-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com> <003f01c0eeeb$4d03bdf0$0101a8c0@cascade>
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:46:34PM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I agree, it is his perogative. I am glad he wrote it. It is excellent > software. However, he is making a choice and other people don't have to > like it, based on sound OpenSource criteria (which he never claimed IPFilter > was). He can not expect anybody else to feel that it is OK to have non-open > software incorporated into the base system of an open OS. I say open the > source up completely under the BSD or equivalent license (as released in the > FreeBSD OS) or remove it from the base OS. > How would you compile anything without gcc or make do without any of the gnu tools? -- David W. Chapman Jr. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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