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On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, likot wrote:
>
> false. it is Free in the right meaning that is free
> ( did you pay for it ? )
>
I was talking about Free as in speech :)
> > Open Source, not even by
> > the most liberal definition of the terms. I
>
> yes i agree the djb license does not conform to the
> wholeness of term opensource
>
> http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html
> http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
> my fault to call djbs work as open source (not
> opensourced licenced)
>
> as i said it has strict licensing
> IT IS NOT GPL'ED OR BSD LICENSED that simple :)
>
>
> > particular, you are never
> > granted the right to modify the software as you see
> > fit.
>
> false - you can modify it and use it just don't redistribute it
> xoom.com is running on a heavily modified qmail package
>
> you can make patches ( i.e. you cannot redistribute binary packages of
> the modified source)
>
Which makes it non-Free software, and non-open source as well. It
effectively prevents you from making forked versions, if you have to
redistribute *everything* as patches. You can't have a CVS repository for
an alternative version.
Thanks for the corrections.
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