[Bug 480724] Review Request: djbdns - A Domain Name System by D. J. Bernstein

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--- Comment #23 from Mark Johnson <johnsonm at gmail.com>  2009-03-06 11:17:46 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> Anyway, Mark, I think it's okay to take a public domain soruce, change it and
> release it as licensed version. If I'm not wrong, I guess openDNS is based on
> `dnscache'. But still if you want me to put that link in the README, I'll do
> that.

I don't think that "those other guys did it so it must be okay" is much of a
justification.  

In any event, I'm just giving you advice.  I've got zip for authority here. 
Consider it, ignore it, your call.

> PS: I'm kind of more looking forward to some technical review, folks.  

Unfortunately, I'm afraid to examine your code closely for fear of being
accused of being a GPL violator later on down the road.

I will say that over the years, the djbdns community has identified and fixed a
few issues.  Such as the ones that hit the front page of Slashdot the other
day.  You might wish to take a look at those.  While you may have no legal
obligation to credit the originators of any of those fixes, personally, I'd
consider it very rude not to do so.  

There is more to djbdns that dnscache.  Somebody who wishes to use dnscache
might not be interested in tinydns/axfrdns and vice versa (not to mention
pickdns and walldns).  I think Debian does package it all up in one bundle, but
I don't know if it's all turned on by default when the package is installed. 
In the past, some RPM distributors have made separate packages for each djbdns
component.

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