Sunnz wrote:
2008/6/24 Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi, just wondering what's your opinion on this...
If one were to release some code under an ISC or BSD-like 2 clause
license, but under the name of anonymous, would it effectively as if
it was released as public domain?
I guess the actually question you wanted to as was:
Does OpenBSD accept anonymous code?
No. OpenBSD does not. We don't do a dumb thing like that.
Well, actually I was just curious, so that's no for OpenBSD... I am
interested to know what is the general case as well. It is nothing
major, it is not like I want to make a killer app under anonymous or
something. :p
You question is probably non of my business as I am mathematician but
accidentally there is a mathematician turn computer scientist who
released some code in the past under very strange "license" that might
be of great interest for you.
So case study is: D. J. Bernstein from University of Illinois at Chicago.
Software in question djbdns, qmail, ucspi-tcp, damontools publicfile .
Do not look for his software among OpenBSD ports. You will not find it.
His code is removed. Why? Well I am leaving to you to investigate the
whole matter. It might not be exactly what you had in mind but it is
definitely educative.
The demise of his qmail is a wonderful example of interesting project
which died because of the bad "licence". I know that lots of people here
like his djbdns but just imagine what could have happened with his
projects if they were released under BSD license.
Kind Regards,
Predrag
