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Re: Source code with no (explicit) licence



On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:19:41AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:49:41AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> > My gut feeling is that a non-licence remains no licence -- and that, if
> > it were ever proposed for Debian (which it hasn't been), it would end up
> > in non-free following the "err on the side of caution" principle.
> 
> Your gut feeling is wrong.  Without a license, the program cannot be
> distributed at all.  DJB knows this.  He likes it that way, apparently.
> 

At times, I've been tempted to rewrite qmail because of this. 

Can anyone name a good replacement that can do Maildir delivery and doesn't
run tons of stuff as root? 

-- 
Brian Ristuccia
brian@ristuccia.com
bristucc@cs.uml.edu



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