Re: IPFilter no more?

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>
>
>     --
>
>      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