On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> With the addition of tcpserver and tcprules to the ever growing list of
> packages, I went and looked at their licensing (always of interest). I
> was dismayed to find out it was under the same licensing as the other
> djb tools (I didn't realize that these were one of them).
>
> According to his page http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html the licenses to
> distribute daemontools and ucspi-tcp expires on December 31, 2001 - so
> after that date we can no longer distribute the packages or programs
> from them.
>
> He also quotes Red Hat's Bernard Rosenkraenzer as saying (on April 16,
> 2001): "qmail and djbdns are not open source, so we aren't going to ship
> them unless the license changes."
>
> I'm not comfortable with his license, and I don't expect that any of
> these tools are contained in Debian either, what I consider to be the
> purest of "OpenSource" Linux distributions on the planet.
>
> Thoughts from you all? Jacques? Andrew?
>
I don't use djb products on any platforms for this reason.
--
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
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