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From: kpneal@interpath.com (Kevin P. Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Another censored piece of mail...
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 96 23:25:41 GMT
Organization: It's a Bedroom--Not A Lab
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In article <DERAADT.96Aug12153527@zeus.theos.com>, deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) wrote:
>Here's another piece of mail which it appears NetBSD has censored off
>their mailing lists.
>
>And by censoring my initial comments, I guess they are asking for more
>comments, and a change of forum.

Oh shit (ducks and covers head).

>Apparently these encumbered pieces are still in the NetBSD repository,
>and this is the real reason why NetBSD has not made their repository
>available like FreeBSD and OpenBSD has.
>
>Their source repository is slimed.

Can we get some verification on this (not that I don't believe you, Theo,
but I personally would like to see a message verifying this from one
of the named people).

And please don't start another flame war!

Assuming that this statement is true, couldn't somebody "doctor" the
CVS tree to remove the tainted code? I mean, if it was eventually
worked back out, somebody could diff the end source and the start
source to generate a new diff to be the "pure" line. Make backups
first. 

I personally would LOVE to see the NetBSD CVS tree open to the public
for anon access.

>Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> > > Just out of curiosity, what's the current state of the CLNP code in
> NetBSD?
>> > > Is it identical to 4.4-Lite2?  Is it functional in the slightest?
>> > 
>> > The code has changed quite a bit from 4.4, mostly in keeping up with
>> > other changes in the kernel.  I've also fixed some rather obvious bugs
>> > in it.  As far as I know, nobody has ever tried to use it.
>> 
>> "changed quite a bit from 4.4-Lite" you mean.
>> 
>> (1) NetBSD never integrated any 4.4BSD sources (because they were
>>     not publically available).  You really should always make that
>>     clear.
>
>Well now, you know that isn't exactly true . . .
‰

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