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Re: Down to 10 ?able packages.



On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 03:54:40PM -0600, Henry Hollenberg wrote:

> > On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 03:07:45PM -0600, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> > 
> > > > > Package: smail     _cut_  .vs. Replace with qmail?
> > > > 
> > > > Qmail isn't even non-free and cannot even be considered as an
> > > > alternative.
> > > 
> > > So you think the whole set up would be compormised if we use qmail ie
> > > consultants wouldn't be able to use it for a commercial installation?
> > 
> > Nope, but you are not allowed to distribute Qmail.  *Bummer*
> > Not even in Source so you could help yourself with a full
> > compiler environment.  *Bummer*
> 
> I thought I read on the developer list that Bruce OK'd it to go into
> debian as non-free...wouldn't this be "distribution"?

Afaik that's a qmail-source-patch package.  It does not contain
a Qmail binary nor Qmail source files.  Afaik it only contains
files and patches to build a .deb from the official (well, the one
and only) source file distributed by djb.

Please prove me wrong.

Regards,

	Joey

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