-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 6 11:20, Lapo Luchini wrote: > >> I guess an email to DJB could clarify it a bit... > > It's essential to do this. A source code with no copyright or > licensing information at all is highly lawless ground. Dunno about > other countries but in Germany a source code is not just public > domain because the author didn't add a copyright notice. On the > contrary. I guess I will actualyl send the email, out of curiosity if not for any other reason... Well actually I guess i found the correct page (it talks about djbdns excplicitly), and it falls under the hat of the generic "DJB license": feel free to download and do whatever you like, but you may distribute binary "only if". http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html In the specific: > You may distribute a precompiled package if > > * installing your package produces /exactly/ the same files, in > exactly the same locations, that a user would obtain by > installing one of my packages listed above; > * your package behaves correctly, i.e., the same way as normal > installations of my package on all other systems; and > * your package's creator warrants that he has made a good-faith > attempt to ensure that your package behaves correctly. > > All installations must work the same way; any variation is a bug. If > there's something about a system (compiler, libraries, kernel, > hardware, whatever) that changes the behavior of my package, then that > platform is /not/ supported, and you are /not/ permitted to distribute > binaries for it. > > You may distribute an operating system that includes a precompiled > package under the same rules. Lapo - -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkFmTsoACgkQaJiCLMjyUvtb+ACeKUA7lqFuK5sj74HhAtqiY63y Z08An2WfksxXFbZ42faNJKfraBSB+54r =zi9v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----