skadns
Software
www.skarnet.org
The build-time dependencies have changed.
The build-time dependencies have changed.
The build-time dependencies have changed.
The build-time dependencies have changed.
The build-time dependencies have changed.
The build-time dependencies have changed.
The build-time dependencies have changed.
Why the change ?
djbdns, which provides the DNS
client libraries used by skadns, is not free, or open source
software, as you name it. Honestly, I don't care: it's excellent
software, and that's all that counts to me. But some people do not want
to have anything to do with non-free software, and that could prevent
them from using skadns. Besides, it was unclear whether you, or I, could
distribute precompiled skadns binaries.
On 2002, July 4th, D. J. Bernstein
put
the djbdns client library into the public domain. So I took the source code
and included it in skalibs, which centralizes other public domain and
otherwise free-licensed code that I use in all my projects. Now the legal state
of skadns is very clear: it's not dependent on any non-free code, it's
BSD-licensed, it's only linked with public-domain and non-virally free-licensed
libraries, and you can distribute skadns binaries, provided
that your C compilation chain allows it.