From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 31 10:44: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498FF37B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 10:44:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10561; Thu, 31 May 2001 11:43:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24364; Thu, 31 May 2001 11:43:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15126.33495.768885.911072@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:43:51 -0600 (MDT) To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well In-Reply-To: <20010531173602.B41422@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <005e01c0e913$0803a180$3028680a@tgt.com> <20010531173602.B41422@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) 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 > > It is being pulled from OpenBSD for what seems like a pretty good reason to > > me. > > > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=nested > > > > This is really quite sad as IPFilter really is a nice piece of software. > > The FreeBSD core team and Darren Reed have agreement in principle that > we can keep the sources in the source tree. We're still working on > the details, but the amount of attention this issue is getting is just > getting people needlessly upset. Is the license going to be modified to become a BSD-like license? This is the main sticking point I and others have, since otherwise the code as it currently sits in the FreeBSD tree is using a license that is more restrictive than both the BSD and GPL licenses. More information on this from -core and/or Darren would be helpful. The amount of attention that this is receiving is relevant to the amount of interest people have in making sure that FreeBSD uses software in the base system that has some semblance of being Open Source, which the current IPF code is not. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message