From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 06:19:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C86F16A41F for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:19:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.fluidhosting.com (mail1.fluidhosting.com [204.14.90.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B00B943D46 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:19:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 82893 invoked by uid 399); 27 Jul 2005 06:19:28 -0000 Received: from mail1.fluidhosting.com (66.150.201.101) by mail1.fluidhosting.com with SMTP; 27 Jul 2005 06:19:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 80965 invoked by uid 399); 27 Jul 2005 06:19:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.15.106?) (dougb@dougbarton.net@67.20.70.103) by mail1.fluidhosting.com with SMTP; 27 Jul 2005 06:19:28 -0000 Message-ID: <42E7276E.3050901@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:19:26 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050726) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long 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> In-Reply-To: <42E724D0.1010608@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhclient sucks X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:19:30 -0000 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 -- This .signature sanitized for your protection