Re: dhclient sucks

From: Doug Barton <dougb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:19:26 -0700
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

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