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Bug#453680: ITP: djbdns -- Replacement for BIND, written by Dan Bernstein



Hi,

Leo costela Antunes wrote:
> [cc'ing Adam to bring this to the bug log]
> 
> Robert Edmonds wrote:
> > Supposedly DJB has released all of his code into the public domain.  If
> > this is really the case and passes DFSG, I plan to package djbdns
> > assuming Adam McKenna (maintainer of djbdns-installer) doesn't want to.
> 
> Perhaps you could have talked to Adam before filling an ITP?
> You could even arrange some sort of co-maintainance, if you already have
> some work done.

What's wrong with using the BTS to communicate?  Note,

  X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Adam D. McKenna <adam@debian.org>

> And just for the record, to back your claims, as of now Qmail's page[0]
> says:
> "I hereby place the qmail package (in particular, qmail-1.03.tar.gz,
> with MD5 checksum 622f65f982e380dbe86e6574f3abcb7c) into the public domain."
> 
> Cheers and good luck with the package

Yes, there is also [0] where he says all of his past and future code
will be public domain.

[0] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3147768955127254412&hl=en

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds@debian.org

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