Typepad acquisition and memcached?

Kevin Rosenberg kevin at rosenberg.net
Fri Jan 7 14:26:12 PST 2005


Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Yes, memcached is still BSD-licensed.  Could could it not be?  You can't
> un-open-source something.

Hi Brad,

I'd like to file ITP (intent to package) announcements for packaging
Perlbal, MogileFS, and Fotobilder for Debian. To do so, I need to
specify their license.

Are perlbal, mogilefs, and fotobilder governed by the BSD license as
well?

Thanks!

Kevin

> can even ship it in their closed products with unreleased modifications
> if they wanted.  I don't see why they would, but they /could/ legally.
> 
> And I don't see any strategic advantage to holding back caching from the
> world... anybody can cache.  We'd prefer people use ours than somebody
> elses, then we get improvements from people using ours.
> 
> So yes, I believe development will continue, and we'll continue to BSD
> license our changes.
> 
> - Brad
> 
-- 
Kevin Rosenberg
kevin at rosenberg.net


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