Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: [KFV] mrouted licence

[Sam Geeraerts]

crap0101 schreef:
> sorry, i've trim some text :)
>
>
> about http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00287
>
> After a comparison between mroute.h and the source mrouted tarball i
> think the code in the former only mimic the mrouted structures and
> definitions for source compatibility purpose (like stated in the first
> comment); indeed, i haven’t found blocks of code copied from the
> latter. 
>
> Therefore, are you think is safe to have it?

I've just skimmed over the mrouted code myself and I think you're right. 
I took some samples and found that only a small portion of the 
definitions in mroute.h are used (not defined) in mrouted and just a 
tiny portion is also defined in mrouted. So the definitions for mrouted 
are/were probably in the BSD kernel. As the comment refers to mrouted 
and not BSD itself, I think we can assume that the definitions in 
mroute.h were reconstructed from mrouted and not copied from mrouted or 
BSD code.

I'm closing the bug report. Thanks for checking this Marco.