From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 6 18: 0:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com [209.247.77.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C65CC37B405 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gordont@bluemtn.net) Received: from localhost (gordont@localhost) by sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (8.11.3/8.11.2/BMA1.1) with ESMTP id f570vnE17349; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:57:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow X-X-Sender: To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: Subject: Re: IPFilter licence update In-Reply-To: <003f01c0eeeb$4d03bdf0$0101a8c0@cascade> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, 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. FreeBSD never said it needed to have all Open Source criteria software (okay, I admit I'm pulling that right out of my ass, but that's the sense I get from hanging out on about 8 lists for the past 6 months). And you have to remember that for some people the GPL software is much worse in the licensing sense than the license attached to IPFilter. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message