On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:33:33AM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
>
>On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:02:30AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
>> Patrick R. Wade wrote:
>>
>> > >I am becoming a djbdns zealot.
>> >
>> > What a damn shame it's Closed Source <grins, ducks and runs>
>>
>> djbdns is closed source? In what way? The source is published
>> at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/djbdns-1.05.tar.gz; are there use
>> restrictions that violate the Open Source Definition?
>>
>I would call it Closed Binary. It can't be redistributed in binary
>form if it does not operate exactly as it was designed to. So to
>distribute it in binary form, linux/unix distributions would have to
>use /service, and /service can't be a symlink. At least that's my
>understanding of the issue.
I probably should have said Unfree Software; i was thinking both of this
restriction, and on the restrictions against distribution with downstream
source modifications.
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