dhclient sucks

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Wed Jul 27 06:08:35 GMT 2005


Doug Barton wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
> 
>> Part of the point of going to the new codebase was to free us from 
>> being locked into vendor sources that we couldn't easily change.
> 
> 
> It's not at all clear to me how the ISC license prevented us from easily 
> changing anything. There may have been other compelling reasons to 
> change code, but I would need this one explained in more detail to be 
> convinced.
> 
> Doug
> 

Not that it was a license issue, it was that changing and adding code
specific to FreeBSD would have made future vendor imports hard, just
like with any other vendor codebase.

Scott


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