Re: bind8 vs bind9
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:28:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
> At 2002-11-18T21:11:23Z, Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net> writes:
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> > Uh, of course tinydns (sic; it's really djbdns) is open source. Perhaps
> > you meant to say _DFSG Free_ ?
>
> No more than Microsoft's "shared source" is open source. I can't
> redistribute either of them, regardless of what bugs I patch or features I
> add.
You can distribute patches to djdns all day long. You can even
distribute a patched version if you don't call it "djbdns". What you
can't do (and this is why djb stuff fails the DFSG) is distribute a
pre-compiled version with your patches applied.
Comparing DJB to MS is disingenuous and you know it. Oh well, a
little demagoguery seem the status quo on debian lists.
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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
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