From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 25 2:52:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C1AC37B491 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 02:52:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oppermann@monzoon.net) Received: (qmail 34661 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2001 10:49:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO monzoon.net) ([195.134.140.21]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Feb 2001 10:49:11 -0000 Message-ID: <3A98E2F9.C5573CD6@monzoon.net> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:48:25 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Matt Dillon , Alfred Perlstein , josb@cncdsl.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND References: <200102200251.TAA06099@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > :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. Nope. The owner is still the company. Just the shareholders of the company changed. If you would look up the law books you would see that that a company constitutes a legal person. The ownership of the company is not matter. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message