[SunRescue] djbdns, BIND, and DNS Security

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon May 28 16:58:50 CDT 2001


On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 05:07:45PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 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.  The MPL wouldn't be so bad, except that it's
> wording make it so that other people have to make changes for their own
> packages.  Which is to say, I don't object to the MPL, accept that it sets
> a bad precident.  If it were written not to specifically talk about
> Mozilla or Netscape (so that it could be reused verbatim), then I'd be
> much happier about it.  If section 6.1 were rewritten and the rest of
> section 6 chucked, I'd be perfectly happy.

I find the whole "which license" debate childish and annoying.  Someone writes
a good product, decides to make it available (with source code) for free,
and people bitch about it...

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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