On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:57:42PM +0100, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
> > If you do use daemontools,  beware that it doesn't appear to
> > have any usage or distribution licence that I can find. (And
> > if it did have one which  was like qmail's, it would be very
> > restrictive)
> 
> _Very_ restrictive ;-) - you can  use it for free and you have
> sources...  Personally  I  do  not know  better  software  for
> playing  with  smtp/pop3/imapd  tcp  services  and  make  them
> fully controlled & foreseeable.

daemontools asserts copyright but grants no licence. It's not clear that you
have any rights to it at all, and that theoretically puts you in a risky
position if your business depends on it.

qmail's licence doesn't allow you to modify the source and give a copy of
the modified source to anyone. It doesn't allow you to even build a binary
image and give that to someone, unless it is built in the way prescribed by
djb (who wants to put binaries under /var ?? Sorry but that's what djb says)

Of course that doesn't stop you using it, but it's because of those things
that qmail is effectively dead - all development input from the open source
community has been stifled. And hence other projects (like courier) are
born.

Regards,

Brian.


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