Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

[Mate Wierdl]

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 02:20:44PM -0500, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 01:05:17PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> > What I do not get is why RH does not have an "unusual" section where
> > they would distribute software that does not fit their distribution
> > policies---similarly to debian's "nonfree" section.  
> 
> They have the contrib setup.  You can offer to maintain a package, and
> they'll put it up on contrib.redhat.com.

Well, when Dan's distribution policy got formulated, RH took out both the
src and the binary rpm from the contrib tree.  Also, I think the contrib
tree is not distributed on the CD ROM.

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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis