Angus Lees wrote: > (i should probably read the license first, but..) There is no licence, that's the major problem. (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/dist.html is hardly a licence.) > so does that mean that when a distro (for example: debian) decides > they want to patch the source to change a default path, or something - > they can't distribute the resultant binaries? (without renaming it to > "dnscache-debian" or some other shenanigans) My concern is that it's not even clear that they would be allowed to do the latter - ie, change the binaries *and* the name. I understand that DJB is a genius and no one should ever want to modify his code or change the way he does things, but I feel that people should do the right thing because they choose to, not because they are compelled to. And what happens if Bernstein is run over by a bus tomorrow? In the absence of any formal licence covering his code, who knows what the executors of his estate could do. Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
