martin, all,
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Martin wrote:
> Yep. Basically, there are two real contenders for DNS server code: BIND
> and djbdns, so vendors are forced to either write something new and make
> it interoperate, or package BIND. Supposedly, djbdns has a prohibitive
> license, not that I've been able to find it to read it. (grep -i licens
> in the source dir turns up nothing. I may just be blind, or stupid. But
> shouldn't your license be as easy to locate as possible? Perhaps in the
> README (not there) or a file called LICENSE (nonexistent.)
djb claims (and he's right, as usual) that you don't need a license to use
his software. licenses are used to *restrict* the rights that you would
otherwise have if your use of the software were only covered under US and
international copyright law. see http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
for more info about what i'm talking about.
> > Heck, if DJB went to a BSD license I'm sure he'd get a lot of traction,
> > but of course that doesn't seem to be his motivator.
>
> Sure. I'd like that, and so would everyone else. But I'll take what I
> can get, in the meantime.
as far as i can tell, you've got more rights with the copyright-only
version of the software than you would have under any other license, BSD
and GPL included. the only questions are related to distribution and most
people on this list won't care that much about that.
just my US$0.02.
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