Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:06:56 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Francisco Reyes <freyes@inch.com> Cc: FreeBSd Chat list <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New bind not completely open source... why GPL is not always best Message-ID: <19990912110656.A81750@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <199909120128.VAA09328@arutam.inch.com> References: <199909120128.VAA09328@arutam.inch.com>
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* Francisco Reyes (freyes@inch.com) [990912 04:44]: >There is an article at Linux Weekly News http://www.lwn.net/ how BIND >8.2 will have some code which although still free to distribute it will >not meet %100 the definition of Open Source. > >There are a number of people who seem to be outraged at this >restrictions and are crying out for changing the parts of BIND that use >DNSafe. So we are basically saying ... it works, it is free, we can >change it, but.... let's go and re-do it anyway.. and with any luck we >will leave some bugs or use not as safe methods. Sick part is, there's even a GPL BIND project somewhere, can't remember the name now though... That one is definitely not coming on my boxes anytime soon... -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best There are only 2 families in the world, the Haves, and the Have Nots. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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