Re: ITP: dnscache (Re: To the bind maintainer)
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:31:47AM +0900, ARAKI Yasuhiro wrote:
> > >Dnscache is a collection on DNS tools (a local DNS cache).
> > >These are written by D.J.Bernstein.
> > >http://cr.yp.to/dnscache.html
> > It's not free and not even packageable.
> > And like all Bernstein's programs it's missing features the author
> > consider not important or broken.
> As you point out, licence of DJB's programs is very eccentric.
> But I think dnscache is good tool for packaging "dnscache-src".
> If aynone say none for more non-DFSG software, I back away ITP.
dnscache seems to be under _no_ license at all,
thus Debian can't even distribute the source.
You could do an installer package, if you wanted.
(Compare with e.g. qmail's short and simple license
at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html: "You may distribute
copies of qmail-1.03.tar.gz, with MD5 checksum ...")
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