Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:04:51 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient sucks Message-ID: <20050727200451.GF20112@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <42E7276E.3050901@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> <42E724D0.1010608@samsco.org> <42E7276E.3050901@FreeBSD.org>
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--aPdhxNJGSeOG9wFI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:19:26PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > >Doug Barton wrote: > > > >>Scott Long wrote: > >> > >>>Part of the point of going to the new codebase was to free us from=20 > >>>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=20 > >>easily changing anything. There may have been other compelling reasons= =20 > >>to change code, but I would need this one explained in more detail to= =20 > >>be convinced. > > > >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. >=20 > So we plan to hack on what we have from openbsd now, and never import new= =20 > verisons? I plan to import changes from OpenBSD, but I feel the code is small enough that it's feasiable to both hack on the code locally and bring in changes from OpenBSD. IMO, that wasn't true with the ISC code. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --aPdhxNJGSeOG9wFI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC5+jiXY6L6fI4GtQRAnBSAJ9HrIDEIqATrpMGGpG7Yj+Lfef9TACgwDD8 UMowwI/5zFzyYGNsY6vlxIc= =7Zeg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aPdhxNJGSeOG9wFI--
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