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DJB Releases All Source to Public Domain

Posted by Zonk on from the play-freebird dept.

A Sage Developer writes "During a recent conference, Sage Days 6, Dan Bernstein (who has recently come under attack for his licensing policy) was among the invited speakers. During a panel discussion on the future of open source mathematics software, Bernstein declared that all of his past and future code would be released to the public domain. This includes qmail, primegen, and a number of other projects. Given the headache that incompatibility between GPLv3 and GPLv2 is causing developers, will we see more of this?"

3 of 330 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Fuck DJB by devjj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So that's what made me gay... Case closed!

  2. Re:The software is good. by Eunuchswear · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    On the other hand, it is not acceptable that his software is not being properly distributed, promoted or documented. Nor is it acceptable that he allows his personality quirks to interfere with the primary purpose of getting code into active circulation.
    Wow, a low slashdot user id gives greater powers than I thought.

    "it is not acceptable?" WTF.
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  3. Re:Fuck DJB by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Whereas, Windows is obviously for people who enjoy (or don't even realise they are) being shafted up the "asstunnel".

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