Re: DNSsafe license
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:40:37AM -0800, Darren Benham wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 12:15:00PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> >
> > This is unfriendly to the free software community at large, to the
> > extent that someone might want to use the DNSsafe code for some non-DNS
> > purpose which this license would not cover, forcing them to negotiate a
> > different license with RSA. But again, I don't see how this violates
> > the DFSG... or how it in any way prevents distribution of BIND.
>
> That might make BIND free in DFSG sense but relying anything non-free
> (which DNSsafe is) would put BIND into contrib in the Debian sense
> (non-free if you can't seperate BIND from DNSsafe).
>
BIND could remain in main where it is now if the DNSsafe could could be
separated without breaking bind. Only if BIND required DNSsafe (obviously
non-free) would it end up in contrib.
I find it discomforting that a very important part of the Internet is at
risk of getting entangled with patent issues and proprietary code when
there's perfectly acceptable free code and unpatented (actually
patent-expired) technologies that can do the same things.
--
Brian Ristuccia
brianr@osiris.978.org
bristucc@baynetworks.com
bristucc@cs.uml.edu
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