David:
Ug. DJB is a bright guy, and I'm a big fan of qmail,
but...he's apparently at war with RedHat (and other major
distro's) who I guess have slighted him by not incorporating
his stuff into their releases under his terms.
From what I could pull out of his FAQ page for
"distributors", I do not believe that tcpserver and tcprules
can be re-packaged into a .LRP and re-released. Quoting:
"All installations must work the same way; any variation is a
bug. If there's something about a system (compiler, libraries,
kernel, hardware, whatever) that changes the behavior of my
package, then that platform is not supported, and you are not
permitted to distribute binaries for it."
Again, he writes good stuff. But he seems to be looking
for a fight, and I'm not willing to sign LEAF up for one.
-Scott
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> With the addition of tcpserver and tcprules to the ever growing list of
> packages, I went and looked at their licensing (always of interest). I
> was dismayed to find out it was under the same licensing as the other
> djb tools (I didn't realize that these were one of them).
>
> According to his page http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html the licenses to
> distribute daemontools and ucspi-tcp expires on December 31, 2001 - so
> after that date we can no longer distribute the packages or programs
> from them.
>
> He also quotes Red Hat's Bernard Rosenkraenzer as saying (on April 16,
> 2001): "qmail and djbdns are not open source, so we aren't going to ship
> them unless the license changes."
>
> I'm not comfortable with his license, and I don't expect that any of
> these tools are contained in Debian either, what I consider to be the
> purest of "OpenSource" Linux distributions on the planet.
>
> Thoughts from you all? Jacques? Andrew?
>
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