From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: Writing NF modules October2008 edition Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:08:25 +0200 Message-ID: <48F77509.6090303@netfilter.org> References: <48F72E44.1030905@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List , kaber@trash.net To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:37149 "EHLO us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751004AbYJPRIc (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:08:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2008-10-16 08:06, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> I have updated the e-book =E2=80=9CWriting your own Netfilter modul= es=E2=80=9D to this=20 >>> October's version. What's new? Featurewise, the API changes that ha= ve=20 >>> gone into net-next-2.6.28 are now mentioned. The work is now availa= ble=20 >>> under CC 3 too, with some extra clauses that have been suggested du= ring=20 >>> talking to you at NFWS. >>> >>> http://jengelh.medozas.de/documents/Netfilter_Modules.pdf >>> (.lyx for source) >>> >>> I would like interested parties and coreteam to give a glance over = this=20 >>> for any comments, formatting errors, spellos or disagreements with = the=20 >>> statements provided in the book. Especially section 5.6/5.7 is miss= ing=20 >>> checksumming which has been a hard brick even for me. >> Thank you Jan, this is a nice effort since we lack of updated docume= ntation. >> >> BTW, just one suggestion in terms of licensing. Why not use FDL inst= ead >> for licensing? Debian cannot distribute this documentation, in case = that >> they want to, with the current license AFAIK. Well, licensing is >> something personal, I'm also fine with CC in any case. >=20 > Too bad for Debian, but the NC clause I consider elementary. And I do= =20 > not see how that interferes with commercial use =E2=80=94 remember Wa= lnut Creek=20 > CDROM (cdrom.com). >=20 > But it seems like Debian does not the GFDL so much either =E2=80=94 f= irst=20 > paragraph of =E2=80=9CCriticism of the GFDL=E2=80=9D on=20 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL They finally did after one votation in 2006 IIRC. Don't put too much trust on wikipedia ;) [1] http://groups.google.com.mx/group/linux.debian.announce/browse_thread/t= hread/136fb411ba81b487/72e944886fea395f?lnk=3Draot --=20 "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-dev= el" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html