Re: Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system?

On 2005-07-20 16:32, "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 19/07/05, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>On 2005-07-19 11:16, Joachim Str?mbergson <watchman@ludd.ltu.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> My thought was to sync/import the sudo implementation from OpenBSD. Bad
>>> idea?
>>
>> Maybe not so bad if the OpenBSD version of sudo has useful enhancements
>> of any sort (i.e. has gone through a thorough security audit, or it
>> includes features that are not available through the Ports version,
>> or if the OpenBSD sudo uses a BSD and not an ISC-style license).
>
> <URL:http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html>:
> >    The ISC copyright is functionally equivalent to a two-term BSD copyright with language removed that is made unnecessary by the Berne convention. This is the preferred license for new code incorporated into OpenBSD. A sample license is included in the source tree as /usr/src/share/misc/license.template.
>
> What's the reason that you'd prefer a BSD-licence over ISC-style licence?

The reason was I happened to be behind a very slow connection when I
replied and had not checked the license myself yet.  Thanks for the
clarification though.  I've already looked at:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/sudo/LICENSE

Thanks,

Giorgos

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