Re: IPFilter no more?

Darren Reed <[email protected]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:11:11 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.ipfilter
Message-ID <18580_1288847556_4CD240C3_18580_9291_1_4CD2406F.2000408@reed.wattle.id.au>
Oracle has no problems with me doing it but would own all of the 
intellectual property (i.e copyright) for all of the work that I would do.
*I* have a problem with that given that I would be doing it on my time 
and it would be me handing out freebies to a very wealthy man/company.


Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> The question is not if Darren intends, but if Oracle still permits 
> Darren to continue open development.
> My fear is that we'll have another fork...
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> *Da:* Simon Chang <[email protected]>
> *A:* [email protected]
> *Data:* 29 ottobre 2010 9.18.41 CEST
> *Oggetto:* Re: IPFilter no more?
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>     On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Summum Bonum <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>         Yeah.. I am wondering about that too. Where is Darren Reed? I
>         did a cvs
>         on the latest branch, and there is no update for a while.
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>         I am about to rip out the public version of ip filter replace
>         with the
>         official Sun/Oracle version. Look like that is the supported
>         version
>         going forward for us Sun admin.. Just upgraded to Solaris 10
>         update 9,
>         and I don't bother to it against 5.1.0 :(
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>     Hi,
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>     Long time ipfilter user, but first time posting on the mailing
>     list. I have various versions of FreeBSD running ipf 4.1.28, and I
>     have been frustrated by the fact that the documentation seems
>     muddled and confusing regarding the exact compilation procedure
>     for 5.1.0.
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>     Also, yes, based on the list volume that I checked, this list
>     seems to be *VERY* low-volume and has been that way for a while
>     now. Does anyone know what the status is for ipfilter, what the
>     general direction is, and whether Darren intends to continue
>     development?
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>     Cheers,
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>     Simon Chang
>