Re: qmail

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Niall Young <niall@holbytla.org> wrote:
>What's the official stance on qmail?  Is the licence (or lack thereof?)
>too restrictive (any modified versions can't be distributed without
>approval)?

Yep. If you have a look at:

  http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/mail/qmail-src.html

... you'll see the following paragraph:

   Dan Bernstein (qmail's author) only gives permission for qmail to be
   distributed in source form, or binary form by approval. This package
   has been put together to allow people to easily build a qmail binary
   package for themselves, from source.

DJB has a habit of coming up with almost-free but restrictive licences.
:( Any questions about those would probably be best answered on
debian-legal.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]