[Buildroot] [PATCH] bind: bump version to 9.11.0
Vicente Olivert Riera
Vincent.Riera at imgtec.com
Sat Oct 15 10:28:53 UTC 2016
Hello,
Regards,
Vincent.
On 15/10/16 12:05, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:46:52 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>
>> > - With the release of BIND 9.11.0, ISC is changing the open source
>> > license for BIND from the ISC license to the Mozilla Public License
>> > (MPL 2.0). See release notes:
>> > http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.11.0/RELEASE-NOTES-bind-9.11.0.html
>>
>> > - Explicitly enable/disable zlib support, otherwise the configure script
>> > will fail like this:
>>
>> > checking for zlib library... yes
>> > checking for library containing deflate... no
>> > configure: error: found zlib include but not library.
>>
>> Committed, thanks.
>
> Sorry I forgot to say it on the mailing list, but the license change is
> a bit weird. Indeed, there is still a COPYRIGHT file which contains the
> old license text. And this file is the one still referenced by the
> LICENSE_FILES variable.
that COPYRIGHT file doesn't contain the old license text. It has been
updated since 9.10.4-P3 (previous version), and now it contains a text
that specifies the license is MPL 2.0:
--------------
$ ~/bind-9.11.0 $ head -n5 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2016 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
--------------
Isn't that enough?
Regards,
Vincent
>
> Then, there is a new file, called LICENSE, which really contains the
> MPL 2.0 license text.
>
> So:
>
> 1/ The LICENSE_FILES variable is now wrong.
>
> 2/ Upstream is very confusing with those two license files, and we
> should probably report that to them. It currently makes it very
> unclear if everything is under MPL2.0 or not.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
>
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