Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer

It was pointed out to me that Darren Reed has changed licenses from his IP 
Filter license that's been in IPF since 2005 or so, when he joined Sun, to 
GPLv2 (probably when Darren left when Oracle took over Sun). Given that IPF 
already lives in src/contrib and src/sys/contrib due to the 2005 license 
change, would that be a problem? If it's OK then I'll maintain it in src. 
If not then a port is in order. Having said that, a port would be messy as 
IPF's own install scripts update src/sys/netinet, among other locations.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_komquats.com>
FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy_at_FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org


In message <D6ADE9C6-868A-4524-A6D7-4EB88F9D6287_at_yahoo.com>, Scott Long 
writes:
> The desire to remove it stems from the inability to give it adequate engineer
> ing 
> service as the network stack evolves.  Simply taking it out of a kernel confi
> g file
> doesn't address that problem at all.  If it's going to stay in FreeBSD at all
> , it
> needs to be maintained.  This could be set about a fair amount of stuff in Fr
> eeBSD,
> but IPFilter stands out since there's a high rate of needed change happening 
> in
> the network stack, and it shouldn't be left to rot nor to be a stumbling bloc
> k for
> those changes.
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Apr 15, 2013, at 12:49 PM, "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you to those that have expressed interest in maintaining IP Filter..
> > 
> > My thoughts are, could we consider putting a option in the kernel config,
> > and leaving it off by default for GENERIC?
> > I think this is a acceptable compromise, considering some people wish for
> > it to be removed.
> > 
> > Sam Fourman Jr.
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_komquats.com>wrot
> e:
> > 
> >> In message <18DF99B0-6E66-4906-A233-7778451B8A92_at_felyko.com>, Rui Paulo
> >> writes:
> >>> 2013/04/15 9:55、Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_komquats.com> のメッセージ:
> >>> 
> >>>> I've been planning on taking on IP Filter for quite some time.
> >>>> Unfortunately I've left my src commit bit lapse (my ports commit bit is
> >>>> alive and well though) thus I'm looking for a mentor. In addition I'm
> >>>> working on an ACER WMI/ACPI kld. One mentor would be preferred but two
> >>>> would be fine too.
> >>> 
> >>> What are your plans regarding ipfilter? I remain unconvinced that it
> >> should b
> >>> e in the base system. Perhaps you can work on it as a port?
> >> 
> >> The initial plan was to import IP Filter 5.1.2 into HEAD. darrenr_at_ hadn't
> >> done much with IPF while employed with Sun. Since then there has been some
> >> development that is long overdue for HEAD.
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure if I'd MFC it into 9 or not.
> >> 
> >> I did consider a port but given it would has to touch bits and pieces of
> >> the source tree (/usr/src), a port would be messy and the decision was mad
> e
> >> to work on importing it into base.
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> Why do you want to work on something that people have been trying to
> >> remove s
> >>> ince 2005?
> >> 
> >> I and others have been using it in FreeBSD for over decade. For the longes
> t
> >> of time we'd use a common set of rules across a FreeBSD and Solaris farm
> >> (using ipfmeta, makefiles, rsync, rdist, and a local CVS repo).
> >> Interoperability with other systems which use IP Filter is a plus. If
> >> there's a maintainer, it only makes FreeBSD richer. Losing IP Filter would
> >> be a loss.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_komquats.com>
> >> FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy_at_FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org
> >> 
> >> 
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> > 
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> > 
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