[bind10-dev] BIND 10 Licensing, was Summary of configuration / cc-channel discussions

[Shane Kerr]

Ray,

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 21:55 -0300, Ray Burkholder wrote:
> If the bind10 team is open to using libraries to help lighten
> the coding load, here are some suggestions which may be of interest.
> I may be coming in too late, but thought I'd offer these up anyway.
> 
> > 
> > Using SQLite to store configuration data and having various modules
> > pull
> > their configuration from that is the plan.  The operations should be
> > API'd so we don't call SQLite directly, but instead call functions like
> > "Add A Zone" or "Add A Master for a Zone" etc.
> 
> Berkeley DB is a nice embedded db with a C++ api wrapper and transactional
> ability.
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/index.html
> Has open source license for open source users.

Speaking of licenses...

I mostly wanted to point out that BIND 10 is to be released under the
normal ISC license, which is vaguely the BSD-license. The upshot of this
is that we cannot really consider libraries or tools that are licensed
under the GPL or CDDL or any other license that requires source be
distributed.

Dual-licensed code or a project where the developers could be convinced
to change license to something BSD-license friendly is okay.

I think that this policy is in the ISC charter. In any case, it will not
be changed.


If people want to create GPL software that works with BIND 10, then I
think that is okay, although of course I am not a lawyer. Please don't
sue me, or my company.


BTW, Berkeley DB seems to be roughly BSD-licensed now:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/htdocs/oslicense.html

--
Shane