Wireguard Controversy Statement

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Thu Mar 25 16:55:15 UTC 2021


On 2021-03-22, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Core unconditionally values the work of all contributors, and seeks a
> culture of cooperation, respect, and collaboration. The public discourse
> over WireGuard in the past week does not meet these standards and is
> damaging to our community if not checked. As such, WireGuard development
> for FreeBSD will now proceed outside of the base system. For those who wish
> to evaluate, test, or experiment with WireGuard, snapshots will be
> available via the ports and package systems.

At face value this seems to say that WireGuard is now permanently
banned from inclusion in the base system.

Or maybe the intent is that development for WireGuard on FreeBSD
will continue outside of the base system until it has reached
sufficient maturity to be included again?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de


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