On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:28:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-11-18T21:11:23Z, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Uh, of course tinydns (sic; it's really djbdns) is open source. Perhaps > > you meant to say _DFSG Free_ ? > > No more than Microsoft's "shared source" is open source. I can't > redistribute either of them, regardless of what bugs I patch or features I > add.
You can distribute patches to djdns all day long. You can even distribute a patched version if you don't call it "djbdns". What you can't do (and this is why djb stuff fails the DFSG) is distribute a pre-compiled version with your patches applied. Comparing DJB to MS is disingenuous and you know it. Oh well, a little demagoguery seem the status quo on debian lists. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
