Re: qmail as debian pkg

["Boris D. Beletsky" <borik@isracom.co.il>]

Hi Syrus, You wrote:
 Syrus>
 Syrus> I saw in "Work needing..." that someone has claimed qmail, but
 Syrus> that something such as a licensing question is delaying its
 Syrus> release.
 
I don't c ANY copyright on qmail.

But when i looked up in qmail-maling list archive i saw a Wishlist
for 2.0 version of qmail that says:

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> *Any* copyright permissions would be a good thing.  As it is, if Dan
> were to sue any one of us for copyright infringement, our only defense
> is the existance of ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/qmail-0.91.tar.
gz.
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so.. What do you do with software thet doesn't have a copyright?!

thks
borik

P.S.  also found "Mathematicians might be used to freely
distributing their stuff without regard to copyright", the author is
mathematician.
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