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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 18:04:04 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
Cc:        "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well
Message-ID:  <3B1519F4.E2671150@i-clue.de>
References:  <005e01c0e913$0803a180$3028680a@tgt.com> <20010530183940.A3569@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <00c301c0e917$003b74b0$3028680a@tgt.com>

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"Thomas T. Veldhouse" schrieb:
> 
> Nothing in that article has convinced me that FreeBSD developers can change
> the source at their will and distribute it -- according to the IPFilter
> licence.  That right should be implicit in ALL FreeBSD system level source
> code.

I disagree. IPF is part of the ports. Since we accept other beasts (even
without source code access like netscape 4.x) to lurk in there. Thus,
having ipf in FreeBSD ports does in no way conflict with the license of
the base system.

Just my EUR.02
-Christoph Sold

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Should IPFilter be pulled from FreeBSD as well
> 
> > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:15:50 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> >
> > > It is being pulled from OpenBSD for what seems like a pretty good
> > > reason to me.
> >
> > Please, see this message from Darren to NetBSD's current-users.
> >
> >     http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2001/05/30/0004.html
> >
> > | I have cleared this up with core@netbsd.org and whilst they appear to
> > | be happy that any problems have been resolved, another effort is
> > | required so that core@netbsd.org can convey this to NetBSD users in a
> > | meaningful way.  A similar message will also be sent to the FreeBSD
> > | people as I've also been working with core@freebsd.org to resolve any
> > | issues they had.
> >
> > SY, Uwe

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