QMAIL

[chip]

Look, I realize this a matter of personal preference, and has all the
makings of a holy war, but a few points.

1. No, you can't distribute a modified source rpm, sorry, do not pass go,
just read the details on the web site: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html

2. One minor correction to an earlier comment, it is open source, it's just
not GPL

Smile,
Chip

> chip wrote:
>> Everyone is entitled to any opinion, but I would say this one is
>> wrongheaded.  The license simply states that you may not distribute qmail in
>> a modified form.  When you are distributing a code base that you don't want
>> to see broken, compromised, or "embraced and extended", this is reasonable.
> 
> So.. What happens if, for example, I want to distribute qmail with
> smtp-auth enabled?
> 
> Hmm... I can't.
> 
> What about if I want to distribute it with bigdns patch, so it, say,
> doesn't break when sending/receiving mail from aol?
> 
> Darn, can't again.
> 
> How about if I want to distribute qmail with such essential patches
> as 0.0.0.0 and the like? What if I want to enable starttls?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> Like I said, the license is pretty stupid. It lets me distribute a
> source rpm with patches, but not a binary rpm without patches. Even
> though the only difference between the two is someone running
> "rpmbuild --rebuild". I think that's dumb. Really dumb. Just for
> qmail one has to keep gcc and the entire build environment
> installed, for no gain whatsoever.
> 
> Regards,