Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:19:26 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhclient sucks Message-ID: <42E7276E.3050901@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <42E724D0.1010608@samsco.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> <42E724D0.1010608@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote:
> 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.
So we plan to hack on what we have from openbsd now, and never import new
verisons?
Doug
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