Greg Lehey schrieb:
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> This message contained so many replies in different directions that
> I'm not sure I have restored the correct sequence.
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> On Wednesday, 30 May 2001 at 18:04:04 +0200, Christoph Sold wrote:
> > "Thomas T. Veldhouse" schrieb:
> >> On Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:39 AM, "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] and whilst they appear to
> >>>> be happy that any problems have been resolved, another effort is
> >>>> required so that [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] to resolve any
> >>>> issues they had.
> >>
> >> 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.
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> I'm not sure which system you're talking about here. We call it
> IPFILTER in FreeBSD, and it's in the kernel source tree. If the worst
> comes to the worst, we can move it to the ports, where you would be
> correct, but I'm personally confident that we'll come to a
> clarification which will leave it where it is.
Greg is right, I stand corrected. Sorry about the confusion.
-Christoph Sold
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