Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 02:51:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), josb@cncdsl.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <200102200251.TAA06099@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200102200227.f1K2RIA39581@earth.backplane.com> from "Matt Dillon" at Feb 19, 2001 06:27:18 PM
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> :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. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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