ISC considering a change to the BIND open source license

[bert hubert]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 08:57:02PM +0000, P Vixie wrote:
> This is long overdue. I'm all for it. Vixie

For what it is worth, as open source fellow travellers we discussed this
earlier both with Vicky and Paul, and we are in strong agreement with this
measure to increase the sustainability of great open source development.


	Bert
	On behalf of PowerDNS

> 
> On June 13, 2016 10:52:15 PM GMT+02:00, Victoria Risk <vicky at isc.org> wrote:
> >Hello BIND users-
> >
> >ISC published BIND under a very permissive open source license
> ><https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/isc-license/>
> >(https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/isc-license/
> ><https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/isc-license/>)
> >nearly two decades ago.  ISC is the organizational steward for BIND; in
> >order to preserve the software for the long term, we are considering a
> >move to the more restrictive Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.0)
> ><https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/>
> >(https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/
> ><https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/>).
> >
> >The MPL license requires that anyone redistributing the code who has
> >changed it must publish their changes (or pay for an exception to the
> >license). It doesn’t impact anyone who is using the software without
> >redistributing it, nor anyone redistributing it without changes – so
> >most users will not see any change. 
> >
> >In the event we do proceed with the change in license, we will announce
> >this with the 9.11.0 beta and it will take effect with the BIND 9.11.0
> >release.
> >
> >We welcome comments from BIND users, including statements of support or
> >concern.  Email Vicky Risk, Product Manager at vicky at isc.org
> ><mailto:vicky at isc.org> if you want to discuss privately, Tweet at us at
> >@ISCdotORG <https://twitter.com/ISCdotORG>, or discuss on
> >bind-users at lists.isc.org.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Vicky Risk, 
> >Product Manager
> >
> >Jeff Osborn, President of ISC, announcing we are considering this
> >change at RIPE72 in Copenhagen May 26th,
> >https://ripe72.ripe.net/archives/video/206
> ><https://ripe72.ripe.net/archives/video/206>.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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