As of 25 November 2002, the PowerDNS nameserver and its modules are open source. This has led to a lot of questions on the future of both PowerDNS, the company and the products. This FAQ attempts to address these questions.
A: PowerDNS 2.9 is licensed under the GNU General Public License version two, the same license that covers the Linux kernel.
A: It is not. Not a single byte has been omitted.
A: Far from it. In fact, we expect development to speed up now that we have joined the open source community.
Sure, to do so, please contact us at <sales@powerdns.com>
Probably - in general, it is best to discuss your intentions and needs on the <pdns-dev@mailman.powerdns.com>
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before doing the work. We may have suggestions or guidelines on how you should implement the feature.
Be sure to ask on the <pdns-dev@mailman.powerdns.com>
(subscribe) mailing list. You can even hire us to do work on PowerDNS
if plain asking is not persuasive enough. This might be the case if we don't currently have time for your feature, but you
need it quickly anyhow, and are not in a position to submit a patch implementing it.
Perhaps, we're not yet sure.
A: Please do. In fact, we'd be very happy to work with you to make this happen. Contact <ahu@ds9a.nl>
if you have specific upstream needs.