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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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