Re: [tlug] Mail Server

[Blomberg David <dblomber@example.com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 16:57, Matt Doughty wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:16:33PM +0900, Blomberg David wrote:
> > 
> > QMails license is much like BSDs except redistrbution is only allowed in
> > source code form.  being a lot of people I know abore source code (no
> > accounting for the taste of some people) they will not touch QMail with
> > a ten foot pole.  Also QMails source must be distyributed (without
> > modification) making it where you have to apply the patches for any
> > security issues by yourself (so what is what I think but still I see
> > some hostility toward QMail for these parts of its license.
> > 
> 
> Well, being as one of the big benefits of the BSD license is that you can
> take any code licensed under it, and include it your own proprietary 
> software without having to release source at all makes it clear that the
> QMail lincense isn't anything at all like the BSD license.
> 
> Add to that the fact that you must submit binary distros for approval,
> you can not distibute patched versions of the source, and you aren't
> allowed even change the default install location, and what have is a
> very restrictive license. I pretty sure the license preclude you taking
> the source and rolling it into your own codebase, but correct me if I
> am mistaken about that. 
> 
> --Matt
okay so the QMail license makes the GPL look lienant...  You can include
it your software but it has to be included as source code (and there is
nothing to prevent you from making an installer that compiles it on the
target machine-of course the user may wonder why the install of the
qmail portion took so long)  Soooooo you couls include it but what a
pain.  It really is not worth it, but it is rather educational :) I
recommend it for people (I haven't figured out why-maybe I am a
Masochist) but really Postfix is much nicer now that we had this
discussion and I certainly don't like pain myself. 
-- 
David Blomberg
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Nihon Libertec
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