Simon Chang wrote:
At this point as long as Darren works for Oracle, his thoughts and any
work he generates at this time belongs to Oracle... so in the least
amount of words, you would not want Darren to contribute anything to
ipfilter right now as it would ultimately be owned by Oracle.
So... fork it, or otherwise its dead in the water unless Darren
finds a
way to contribute to it without jeopardizing its integrity.
http://marc.info/?l=ipfilter&m=127340750503475&w=2
<http://marc.info/?l=ipfilter&m=127340750503475&w=2>
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jhell,v
That's a shame, because I believe I recently confirmed a problem
report that is still gathering dust in the FreeBSD database and not
responded to. The problem states that the "portmap" directive does
not work properly, and we have network dumps of the command shredding
our packets as they transit the firewall.
Here is the thing: Even if Darren can no longer maintain ipfilter,
what does it cost him to put a word on the main website saying so? He
doesn't even really need to elaborate why. All he has to do is say
something like "forks are welcome - goodbye and good luck", and he can
get this off his back.
Folks don't even need to fork it.
There's a sourceforge project with CVS for ipfilter...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipfilter/
If someone wants to directly contribute patches, etc, into the
sourceforge CVS then I can easily add them as required.
Darren
