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[ On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 08:05:14 (-0700), [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Planix, Inc. <[email protected]>; Secrets of the Weird <[email protected]>
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