From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 6 19:41:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.viasoft.com.cn (unknown [61.153.1.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C23E37B407 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:41:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsddiy@163.net) Received: from William ([192.168.1.98]) by mail.viasoft.com.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16034; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:41:23 +0800 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:51:35 +0800 From: David Xu X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: bsddiy@163.net Organization: Viasoft X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1387163220.20010607105135@163.net> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: "Gordon Tetlow" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: IPFilter licence update In-reply-To: <003f01c0eeeb$4d03bdf0$0101a8c0@cascade> References: <003f01c0eeeb$4d03bdf0$0101a8c0@cascade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hello Thomas, Thursday, June 07, 2001, 8:46:34 AM, you wrote: >> I removed Darren from the CC list as I don't think he really needs to be >> in on this discussion.... >> >> >> >> It's not released under a BSD license because he doesn't want to. His >> perogative. We have some much more restrictive licenses (ie GPL) in the >> base OS and no one complains about them. >> >> >> There, that's all I have to say about the topic. I'll go back to lurking. TTV> I agree, it is his perogative. I am glad he wrote it. It is excellent TTV> software. However, he is making a choice and other people don't have to TTV> like it, based on sound OpenSource criteria (which he never claimed IPFilter TTV> was). He can not expect anybody else to feel that it is OK to have non-open TTV> software incorporated into the base system of an open OS. I say open the TTV> source up completely under the BSD or equivalent license (as released in the TTV> FreeBSD OS) or remove it from the base OS. TTV> Tom Veldhouse TTV> veldy@veldy.net >> >> -gordon >> I agree too, remove it from base system. too pain to have very restricted license in base system, a free open source software was being compromised by a non free code. anyway, we have ipfw. -- Regards, David Xu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message