On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 03:37:25PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 02:52:12PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:05:40PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > It is a strange idea I know, but I'd be interested in what the opinion of > > > the core netfilter developers is on porting the whole netfilter subsystem to > > > Solaris? > > > > After my netfilter presentation at linuxtag, somebody was asking me exactly > > this question. > > And your answer was?
what a weird idea. I told him that it is technically not easy and the core team certainly has no plans of ever supporting this thing. I didn't even start to talk about licensing issues. > > This is basically the same question like binary-only kernel modules. > > I think it is more similar to Gimp plugins under Photoshop case. I'm not aware of this case - we are not talking about .so's [libraries] being linked to an application, which is what the GPL is talking about. > Under binary-only you mean propriatery, or something nonGPLd? Solaris kernel > source _is_ available, though it doesn't use the GPL. well, source is available if you sign some very interesting license conditions, IIRC. Anyway, this is not important. When I was talking about proprietary or binary-only, I should have said: GPL-incompatible. > Bazsi -- Live long and prosper - Harald Welte / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ GCS/E/IT d- s-: a-- C+++ UL++++$ P+++ L++++$ E--- W- N++ o? K- w--- O- M+ V-- PS++ PE-- Y++ PGP++ t+ 5-- !X !R tv-- b+++ !DI !D G+ e* h--- r++ y+(*)
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