Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 07:53:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well Message-ID: <20010601075325.L41422@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <15126.33495.768885.911072@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:43:51AM -0600 References: <005e01c0e913$0803a180$3028680a@tgt.com> <20010531173602.B41422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <15126.33495.768885.911072@nomad.yogotech.com>
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On Thursday, 31 May 2001 at 11:43:51 -0600, Nate Williams wrote: >>> 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. These are the details we need to clarify. Be patient; we're not holding anything back, but it doesn't make much sense to give a blow-by-blow description when various people have already got upset. Greg -- 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
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