Re: licensing

[Michael T. Babcock]

The question is: does DJB prefer that one modify (should they wish to) 55% of
the source code (say) and make this mod available as a patch, or simply rename
it to "rmail" (or whatever) and mention that it is derived from Qmail,
available at ... blah ...

Vince Vielhaber wrote:

> > I understand Copyright law as much as many long time free / open source
> > software advocates do.  That said, I have still seen nothing about the
> > licensing of his software besides that he doesn't care about anything
> > that isn't implicitly illegal.
> >
> > That said, in a case-law country, I can do pretty much whatever I think
> > is legal to do until he sues me.  At that point, the courts decide.
> >
> > Most importantly, will he allow full-modification and redistribution
> > with a new name (GPL style).  IE, forking.
>
> In that case you'd be "distributing" which has a link on the qmail home
> page (http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html).