From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25763 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2004 04:09:21 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Aug 2004 04:09:21 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C1dTs-0007wZ-8g for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:09:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 15248 invoked by uid 89); 30 Aug 2004 04:09:18 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 15227 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2004 04:09:17 +0000 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:09:16 +0000 From: Cory Visi To: Jan Dubiec Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040830040916.GA16313@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <20040825172450.GB20213@toucan.gentoo.org> <87brgu5hse.fsf@hs001.slackware.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87brgu5hse.fsf@hs001.slackware.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches for MPPE/MPPC X-Archives-Salt: 7b63a55b-9cbc-4a93-b8e4-f803f72add51 X-Archives-Hash: d9ccf405c6ea0133c34793bfee5456d9 Jan, thanks for the reply! It was a pleasant surprise to find out that you read our list :) I plan to switch to the non-"stdopt" ppp patch in the next release (not without lots of warnings and notices, fellow Gentoo users). Sorry for all the bug traffic this may have caused you. Thanks, Cory On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 01:02:09PM +0200, Jan Dubiec wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:24:50 +0000, Cory Visi wrote: > > Hi all. I am working on some ppp bugs and I noticed there is an excellent > > kernel patch for MPPE/MPPC available for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel versions: > Thanks ;-) > > [.....] > > 1. Can I include the ppp patch in the ppp ebuild? How do I do it legally? > IMO the *pppd* patch can be included because it doesn't contain actual MPPC > code. MPPC (de)compresion routines are located in the *kernel* patch. > > > 2. Can we include the kernel patch in the gentoo-sources base patch set? > > How do we do it legally? > IMO, if Gentoo servers are outside the USA (e.g. in the EU), the patches > could be included. Although I am not a lawyer. > > I have one question - does somebody of you know if my patches are included > in an unofficial Gentoo sources? I am asking because I am receiving a lot > of emails from people who use Gentoo and my patches. They use "stdopt" > (e.g. ppp-2.4.2-stdopt-mppe-mppc-1.1.patch.gz) version of the pppd patch. > It has MPPE/MPPC related options compatible with original pppd-2.4.2. > Unfortunately, because of that it inherits also a few drawbacks of the > original. So if you decide to include my patches into Gentoo sources, I > recommend using non-"stdopt" pppd patch (i.e. ppp-2.4.2-mppe-mppc-1.1.patch.gz). > I generates much less email traffic from unexperienced users. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list