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Re: MultiBind Testers Wanted
From: woods () weird com (Greg A. Woods)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:28:22 -0400 (EDT)
[ On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 08:05:14 (-0700), kevind () sea checkpoint com wrote: ]
Subject: Re: MultiBind Testers Wanted The term BIND, as DNS software, was never owned by Mike Karels or I. Neather of us were the creators of BIND. At the time we work on BIND, our work was owned by UCB. The original creators of BIND were Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou. They were working on their graduate degrees in Computer Science at UCB. The first published paper about BIND is in the Proceeding of Summer USENIX Conference 1984, Salt Lake City.
Oh my! I missed that reference! Thank you very much for correcting me!
I am not a lawyer but I could see that at some point the UCB Copyright would expire and that the ISC copyright would then pick up the term.
I think Vixie was alluding more to the trademark than the copyright. I expect that in terms of copyright he, and/or ISC, own large chunks of the BIND-8 code, and most of the BIND-9 code and documentation; though unless they've received waivers from all contributors the whole thing could get rather messy if anyone ever contested it. Certainly I never signed any waivers for my contributions to BIND-4 (though they were implicitly freely redistributable, of course). -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods () acm org> <woods () robohack ca> Planix, Inc. <woods () planix com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods () weird com>
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