Milan P. Stanic wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:24:48AM -0500, Robert Edmonds wrote:

>> Supposedly DJB has released all of his code into the public domain.  If
>> this is really the case and passes DFSG, I plan to package djbdns
>> assuming Adam McKenna (maintainer of djbdns-installer) doesn't want to.
> 
> Are you sure that the complete package is in the public domain?
> Some files are, but not all of them, AFAIK.


The text on http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html now reads:

> I hereby place the qmail package (in particular, qmail-1.03.tar.gz, with MD5 
> checksum 622f65f982e380dbe86e6574f3abcb7c) into the public domain. You are 
> free to modify the package, distribute modified versions, etc.
> 
> This does not mean that modifications are encouraged! Please take time to 
> ensure that your distribution of qmail supports exactly the same interface as 
> everyone else's. In particular, if you move files, please set up symbolic 
> links from the original locations, so that you don't frivolously break 
> scripts that work everywhere else. 

Assuming that qmail-1.03.tar.gz contains all the code written by DJB
that's needed to build qmail, that seems pretty explicit.

best regards,

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