From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 17 12:18:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.de (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3A737B40A for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rabat@web.de) Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 15Xp86-0005iu-05; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:18:02 +0200 Received: from spotteswoode.yi.org (520082050842-0001@[217.80.22.93]) by fmrl05.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 15Xp7y-1dBAiuC; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:17:54 +0200 Received: (qmail 411 invoked by uid 0); 17 Aug 2001 19:18:12 -0000 Date: 17 Aug 2001 21:18:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20010817211812.B358@spotteswoode.yi.org> From: "clemensF" Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change to Bind 9 References: <20010817062846.M513@spotteswoode.yi.org> <20010817172525.CCC2A37B405@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010817172525.CCC2A37B405@hub.freebsd.org>; from william.carrel@infospace.com on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 10:25:25AM -0700 Organization: private X-PGP-ID: 0x214190AF X-Stamper-To: post@stamper.itconsult.co.uk X-Sender: 520082050842-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > William Carrel: > Neverminding the unreadibility of DJB's source code and his poor > attitude toward others, djbdns requires a whole suite of other tools > that DJB's written to operate properly. Because normal services aren't > quite good enough for him. ok, i live quite happily regarding these issues, because his software *is* the most reliable i've found so far, but read on for the unhappy side. > There is also a licensing issue. DJB licenses his code in such a way > that it is impossible to make changes to it and distribute it without > violating his license. Hence the myriad of .diff files for qmail to > make it support new and interesting things. People can't distribute > packages of these things without incurring the wrath of Dan. yes. and again, yes! clemens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message