[Gllug] re: 'djb warning'

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:03, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> Much of the animosity seems to come from DJB.  Distributions _cannot_
> include his software, because they can't make the file locations fit
> in with their distro-wide plan.  That means they can't be included.
> DJB gets quite het up about that, when really he could quite easily
> change his license.
> 
> There are unnofficial packages for all the major distros, if you
> really want them.  Many people avoid his software because of the
> recalcitrance.

For debian (I haven't looked into it on other distros) there are
official "packages" - they get round the licence by providing a package
which installs source tar balls and a script which you run. The script
will painlessly/automatically produce .debs. 

As to strange locations of files: they offer a choice - they've "had a
go" at making the locations of files more sane, but they warn that the
DJB layout is guaranteed to work. I've stuck with the latter, since the
dns servers/caches are quite mission critical.

Simon


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