From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 6 21:31:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA17882 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA17844 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:31:05 -0700 (PDT) From: proff@suburbia.net Received: from pdx1.world.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA27596 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 17:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by pdx1.world.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA11090 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 17:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14658 invoked by uid 110); 7 Apr 1997 00:32:38 -0000 Message-ID: <19970407003238.14657.qmail@suburbia.net> Subject: Re: ipfilter compilation In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "Apr 7, 97 00:08:27 am" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:32:38 +1000 (EST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Mon, 7 Apr 1997 proff@suburbia.net wrote: > > The problem with this is that packages in src/sys/contrib/* may have > > non-BSD copyrights -- but because it is under sys, you don't have any > > choice in the matter. > > I thought about this but it didn't seem to be a problem since there is a > mix of GNU and BSD copyrights in the src/contrib tree already. Having a > similar mix in the src/sys/contrib tree would be OK. > > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com This gives the user no choice in the matter however. If they get src/src they get src/sys/contrib. To my mind the philosophy of the two hierarchies are different enough to seperate them at the root. On one hand we have "the BSD kernel", on the other hand "contributed software, which may not have BSD copyright, containing some kernel code, but perhaps only a small percentage of compared to userland code". Cheers, Julian. -- Prof. Julian Assange |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks proff@suburbia.net |and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery