Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:16:50AM -0700, likot wrote: > > again how many times should we argue that you can > > modify the darn thing and redistribute your > > modification by patches > > How many patches do you know exist for qmail, which are publicly > available?
Oh, lots actually. Take a peek at http://www.qmail.org/top.html Count them if you wish. More get added all the time. > Most people probably decide to keep their changes to > themselves; I think that's true of ANY software for which the source is publicly available. Why? Lots of reasons. Because of NDAs. Because the changes are specific for a particular environment and won't make sense anywhere else. Because they don't want to have to support them. I know we've (meaning me and my developers) hacked a lot of code that will never be seen outside the company. > the license doesn't encourage redistribution, in fact it > goes out of its way to make modification and redistribution of such > changes as difficult as possible without making it impossible. You can get SRPMs that will install qmail+patches. Not difficult at all. Brian _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
