Correcting edit error.
> I ask because I don't know. I worry a bit, because, over the decades
> before 2007, when Dan used his semi-covertly-proprietary licensing
> to enforce some modernity-hostile improvements (such as FHS compliance),
^^^^^^^ discourage
Dan's pre-2007 licensing made it gratuitously disallowed to ship _binary_
packages of djbware programs that differed from Dan's preference, e.g.,
it would have violated his pre-2008 Qmail licence terms to distribute a
binary RPM or deb that installed components in FHS-compliant locations
instead of where Dan wanted them to live. Some distros, notably Debian,
employed ingenious workarounds like a "qmail-src" package that _locally_
altered the qmail 1.03 source tree to be FHS-compliant and then
autobuilt and installed the matching binaries.
Most distros, and indeed most potential collaborators, simply applied
their efforts to other codebases.
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