Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:03:05 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1020045786.7e26d5@mired.org> To: kudzu@tenebras.com Cc: pjklist@ekahuna.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf theory Message-ID: <15558.4697.740506.455174@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <3CC5FD0E.7020908@tenebras.com> References: <bulk.19566.20020423135101@hub.freebsd.org> <20020423235147062.AAA735@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> <15557.63103.194310.947011@guru.mired.org> <3CC5FD0E.7020908@tenebras.com>
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In <3CC5FD0E.7020908@tenebras.com>, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> typed: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <20020423235147062.AAA735@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>, Philip J. Koenig <pjklist@ekahuna.com> typed: > >>Mike Meyer wrote: > >>>>The rationale for inclusion in the base system as opposed to ports > >>>>has usually been licensing issues. > >>>By some odd quirk, I've never heard any such rationale. > >>The two examples I can think of off the top of my head are bash and > >>apache. > > Neither of those is in the base system. > OpenSSL is. And it was excluded until Sept. 2000. Right. It was kept out of the base system for licensing reasons. It was included because it was decided that ssh was part of a complete system, and OpenSSH needs OpenSSL. I'm still looking for an example of something that was made part of the system for licensing reasons. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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