[SunRescue] djbdns, BIND, and DNS Security

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, May 28, 2001 at 17:07:45 (-0400), Joshua D. Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] djbdns, BIND, and DNS Security
>
> He doesn't say anything anywhere about whether we can or can't distribute
> source changes, which is another major hole.

I think even in the grand old U.S. of A. anyone can still distribute
patches to any software (at least any not protected by trade secret
law).  It's simply called "fair use" under the Copyright Act.  I suppose
there might be some complication in places where shrink-wrap contract
licenses are permitted (and even some so-called freeware licenses are in
effect shrink-wrap contract licenses because I'll bet if you tried to
enforce them under pure copyright law they just wouldn't hold any water.)

> I'm sorry, people with strang licences and who complain about them not
> being accepted annoy me.  Frankly, I wish everything were confined to 6
> licenses.  The GPL, LGPL, BSD, Artistic, Public Domain, or something that
> is very clearly proprietary.

Well, you'll never get that to happen!  ;-)

I don't think there's any major problem with my copyright license,
though some people have refused to accept it.  Of course I don't
complain about that -- I just don't let them use my software!  ;-)

It is, of course, mostly a BSD-style license, with some key corrections:

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2001 Greg A. Woods <woods at weird.com>
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(I suppose I should add that I'll freely grant the right to use this
license text itself to anyone, under the same conditions....  :-)

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