Re: qmail as debian pkg
I've asked the author (within the last few weeks) and he'd rather we
not release a package until he ships 1.0. You will *not* be able to
convince him of the utility of the GPL; in fact, he's got some
interesting arguments of his own regarding applicability of existing
copyright law. Check the qmail mailing list archives (probably
available through www.qmail.org somewhere) for his point of view.
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From: Edward Ing <edward.ing@utoronto.ca>
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I am a FreeBSD user and I like the fact that FreeBSD has a common
distribution,
and that this distribution has a relatively straight forward
installation
process. Secondly, I like the way FreeBSD has organized the software
packages and the package installation/uninstallation tools, and
organized the auxillary software into a ports collection with
a set of "make" skeletons (which even ftp to get the required sources.)
The organzation of your distribution is reaching an equally well
thought-out state. The FreeBSD distribution process, and its
development/research structure can serve as a good model for Linux
development to improve your distribution.
My concerned for Linux (Slackeware linux was actually the first free
UNIX which I started with) is that the many variants are leading it to
the way of the BSD-SystemV-AIX-HP-UX-you-name-it schism. I really
appreciate what Debian is trying to do for the free-UNIX world and
hope that it will not be too stubborn, but use the FreeBSD distribution
and development structure as a model and integrate it into the
advantageous aspects of Debians existing package managment system.
I will probably be installing a Debian system sometime, but I am waiting
for a neat realease.
Edward Ing
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