On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:19:26PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > 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. > > > >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? I plan to import changes from OpenBSD, but I feel the code is small enough that it's feasiable to both hack on the code locally and bring in changes from OpenBSD. IMO, that wasn't true with the ISC code. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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