Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:19:26 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhclient sucks Message-ID: <42E7276E.3050901@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <42E724D0.1010608@samsco.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>
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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
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