Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:08:16 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> Subject: Re: dhclient sucks Message-ID: <42E724D0.1010608@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <42E71F77.6010705@FreeBSD.org> References: <42E583F9.3070703@rogers.com> <200507261853.07513.peter@wemm.org> <1242.172.16.0.199.1122429678.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <200507271215.14369.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42E6F5EA.7030801@samsco.org> <42E71F77.6010705@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > >> Part of the point of going to the new codebase was to free us from >> being locked into vendor sources that we couldn't easily change. > > > It's not at all clear to me how the ISC license prevented us from easily > changing anything. There may have been other compelling reasons to > change code, but I would need this one explained in more detail to be > convinced. > > Doug > Not that it was a license issue, it was that changing and adding code specific to FreeBSD would have made future vendor imports hard, just like with any other vendor codebase. Scotthome | help
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