From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 31 1: 8:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2807037B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 01:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C38DC6ACBC; Thu, 31 May 2001 17:38:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 17:38:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Tulloch Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , "Valeriy E. Ushakov" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well Message-ID: <20010531173818.C41422@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <04a401c0e917$a968a120$931576d8@inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from andrew@cosa.uk-legal.net on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:20:51PM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 30 May 2001 at 17:20:51 +0100, Andrew Tulloch wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >> On Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:44 AM, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: >>> Nothing in that article has convinced me that FreeBSD developers >>> can change the source at their will and distribute it -- according >>> to the IPFilter licence. That right should be implicit in ALL >>> FreeBSD system level source code. >> >> Someone on irc mentioned that something like ipf that cannot be modified >> should go into the ports. Not my personal belief, but I thought I would >> relay it anyhow. > > If you take a look at the cvs commit logs e.g. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/ip_fil.h > > you'll notice its Darren himself who does virtually all the commits on the > ipf code in the FreeBSD tree, I'm going to assume he gave himself > permisson :) Much more to the point, he didn't do *all* the commits. I think this indicates his viewpoint on the matter. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message