Editing PowerDNS (section)

== History ==
PowerDNS development began in 1999 and was originally a commercial proprietary product. In November 2002, the source code was made public under the open-source GPL v2 license.<ref>{{cite book
  |last = Mens
  |first = Jan-Piet
  |title = Alternative DNS Servers: Choice and Deployment, and Optional SQL/LDAP Back-Ends (Paperback)
  |publisher = UIT Cambridge Ltd.
  |year = 2008
  |pages = 114
  |isbn = 978-0-9544529-9-5}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
 |url = https://www.powerdns.com/about.html
 |title = About
 |date = n.d.
 |website = PowerDNS
 |publisher = PowerDNS.COM BV
 |access-date = 24 January 2019
 |quote = "PowerDNS was launched in 1999"; "Originally closed source"; "In 2002, all PowerDNS software was released as open source" }}</ref>