Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:53:45 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, josb@cncdsl.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <v04220803b6cae1992cc1@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <3AA52E66.425725FC@softweyr.com> References: <200102200122.SAA04466@usr05.primenet.com> <ybupugd2u4n.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> <3A934507.A0645CF3@softweyr.com> <ybug0gr3hsc.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> <v04220801b6ca532b3d95@[194.78.241.123]> <3AA52E66.425725FC@softweyr.com>
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At 11:37 AM -0700 3/6/01, Wes Peters wrote: > Conversely, the really bad part about using SleepyCat's proprietary product > is that it would force anyone making FreeBSD-based products to either rip > it out of the system or pay SleepyCat money. I think we can pretty much > forgo any further discussion on this point. There's nothing of value in this world that I know of which is truly without cost. There simply aren't any robust, transaction-capable, recoverable format database engines out there which do not cost any money for any kind of license, including commercial purposes. Now, when we're talking about using it as a back-end for BIND, I think that the Sleepycat folks are likely to be willing to suitably modify the license to allow it to be used as one standard back-end for the open source version, and of course commercial products based on BIND would have the same database API available to them so they could replace Berkeley DB with whatever database engine they prefer. -- ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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