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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:48:25 +0100
From:      Andre Oppermann <oppermann@monzoon.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, josb@cncdsl.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND
Message-ID:  <3A98E2F9.C5573CD6@monzoon.net>
References:  <200102200251.TAA06099@usr05.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > :For DJBDNS, this would mean extracting the changes to the code as
> > :a set of patches, and then having the new owners apply the patches
> > :to the unaltered DJBDNS code, since the binaries of the modified
> > :code themselves are not permitted to be redistributed.
> >
> >     It means nothing of the sort.  Unless DJBDNS explicitly says that
> >     a change of ownership (company bought, merger,... ) requires doing
> >     the above very silly thing, there is no legal risk whatsoever.
> >     A company being sold to another company is a very, very, very
> >     different beast then a company selling software commercially.
> 
> Selling the company transfers ownership of the binaries.

Nope. The owner is still the company. Just the shareholders of the
company changed. If you would look up the law books you would see
that that a company constitutes a legal person. The ownership of
the company is not matter.

-- 
Andre


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