Re: IPFilter no more?

Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> Hi Darren, happy to read you again :)
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> I find it absurd that you can't use your spare time for your own stuff.
> Does it mean that if you write 2 lines of code at 2:00am in your 
> house, that is still Oracle's IP???
> It's madness!

As long as it relates to something in which they have business 
interests, then yes.

For example, if I made a patch to the Linux kernel to fix a bug at home, 
Oracle would own that IP (consider Oracle Enterprise Linux) even though 
I don't work on OEL. On the other hand, if I were to patch FreeBSD for a 
similar reason, Oracle would still own that because I would be working 
on an "operating system" and Oracle is in the business of manufacturing 
"operating systems" (Solaris & OEL.)

Darren

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> Da: Darren Reed <[email protected]>
> A: Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]>
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>     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.
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>     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]
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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.
>     >
>     > 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.
>     >
>     > 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?
>     >
>     > Cheers,
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>     > Simon Chang
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