[ros-bugs] [Bug 4492] nslookup is missing.

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http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4492


Colin Finck <mail at colinfinck.de> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Colin Finck <mail at colinfinck.de>  2009-05-13 13:45:20 CET ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Technically, using them would solve the issue but I did not know how the
> license of these sources is compatible with the ones used in ReactOS; at a
> first read, it seems to me that there is not problem, but more opinions on this
> would be better.

That source uses 4-clause BSD license, which would make licensing stuff more
complex due to the advertising clause.
While that advertising clause was revoked in 1999 (see
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change), I'm not sure
whether that change also applies to old code.

Nevertheless, it shouldn't be a problem to find such a utility licensed under
3-clause/2-clause BSD, MIT, ISC or GPL in the big pot of existing nslookup
utilities. For example, the version in BIND 9 uses a proper license, on the
other hand it heavily depends on BIND includes. With some searching, you
probably find a tool suitable for inclusion inside ReactOS.


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