From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 20:04:52 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 27C9916A41F; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:04:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F3443D48; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:04:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j6RK4pqB023904; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:04:51 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j6RK4pl9023903; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:04:51 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:04:51 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20050727200451.GF20112@odin.ac.hmc.edu> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aPdhxNJGSeOG9wFI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42E7276E.3050901@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu 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 20:04:52 -0000 --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--