[36606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MultiBind Testers Wanted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Wed Apr 11 13:30:52 2001
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: kevind@sea.checkpoint.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:28:22 -0400 (EDT)
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[ 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
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