Comments on: Daemontools and Ruby on Rails

By: Real Time Traffic

Real Time Traffic — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:44:00 +0000

Thank you, even today this article is of great value! On Debian thought there is a slight difference in the symbolic link if you install if from the apt repository. Instead of linking to /service you just link to /etc/service.

By: Juan

Juan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:06:39 +0000

Daemontools was placed into the public domain in December 2007: http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html

By: Tommi Virtanen

Tommi Virtanen — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:40:08 +0000

If you like the design of daemontools but prefer Free software, try runit: http://smarden.org/runit/

By: john

john — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:08:43 +0000

I’m not certain about all his code, but qmail, djbdns and daemontools do lack the freedom to redistribute modified versions.

I don’t sweat it too much because I understand the reasoning behind his decision and it just ends up as an inconvenience rather than an outright assault on my freedom.

As I understand it, he doesn’t want insecure modifications to his code tarnishing reputation. I think the modern way of achieving this is using trademarks so anyone redistributing needs to do it under a different name (like RedHat).

Or he could just be a dick head. Often difficult to tell.

He doesn’t actually release the code under a specific license btw. His understanding of copyright allows modifications and distributions of those modifications. Additionally he grants the right to redistribute unmodified code. It does mean we can’t reuse the code in other projects, but if you’ve ever seen djb’s code you’d know it wouldn’t be much use to most coders, heh.

http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html

By: Matt Lee

Matt Lee — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:24:17 +0000

Aren’t djb’s tools all non-free due to the license weirdness?