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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
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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?

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David W. Chapman Jr.

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