From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 19 18:52:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D8937B491 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA23678; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:47:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA.SaGmU; Mon Feb 19 19:46:58 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06099; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:51:59 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200102200251.TAA06099@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND To: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 02:51:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), josb@cncdsl.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200102200227.f1K2RIA39581@earth.backplane.com> from "Matt Dillon" at Feb 19, 2001 06:27:18 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > :For DJBDNS, this would mean extracting the changes to the code as > :a set of patches, and then having the new owners apply the patches > :to the unaltered DJBDNS code, since the binaries of the modified > :code themselves are not permitted to be redistributed. > > It means nothing of the sort. Unless DJBDNS explicitly says that > a change of ownership (company bought, merger,... ) requires doing > the above very silly thing, there is no legal risk whatsoever. > A company being sold to another company is a very, very, very > different beast then a company selling software commercially. Selling the company transfers ownership of the binaries. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message