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Subject: Re: dhclient sucks
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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

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