From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 6 11:27: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFBB37B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f26JPw708744; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:26:02 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3AA52E66.425725FC@softweyr.com> References: <200102200122.SAA04466@usr05.primenet.com> <3A934507.A0645CF3@softweyr.com> <3AA52E66.425725FC@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:53:45 +0100 To: Wes Peters From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Cc: Randell Jesup , Terry Lambert , Matt Dillon , Alfred Perlstein , josb@cncdsl.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:37 AM -0700 3/6/01, Wes Peters wrote: > Conversely, the really bad part about using SleepyCat's proprietary product > is that it would force anyone making FreeBSD-based products to either rip > it out of the system or pay SleepyCat money. I think we can pretty much > forgo any further discussion on this point. There's nothing of value in this world that I know of which is truly without cost. There simply aren't any robust, transaction-capable, recoverable format database engines out there which do not cost any money for any kind of license, including commercial purposes. Now, when we're talking about using it as a back-end for BIND, I think that the Sleepycat folks are likely to be willing to suitably modify the license to allow it to be used as one standard back-end for the open source version, and of course commercial products based on BIND would have the same database API available to them so they could replace Berkeley DB with whatever database engine they prefer. -- ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message