On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:25:44PM +0200, Olivier M. wrote:
> but it seems it's again a kind of personal fight between
> 2 people, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the software :/
It has nothing to do with a personal fight. I had a coversation with Theo
deRaadt about this issue. Removing qmail from the ports tree is just due to
its incompatible license. Nobody is really sure wether a port of qmail &
friends is allowed or not, and the developers better spend their time on
developing than on court, not to mention OpenBSD's "correctness" goal.
In fact, Theo agrees that Dan's code is superior. Dan on the other hand uses
OpenBSD himself and donated to OpenBSD when it was really needed.
After the problems with IPF (it's license was a small variation from the BSD
license, and nobody noticed distributing modified versions isn't legal)
there was a license audit done (and is still ongoing) to resolve any
licensing issues, djbware got hit by it. Either Dan clarifies wether an port
is allowed or not or djbware stays out of the ports tree, it's that easy. If
djbware had a BSD license chances were good to have qmail and djbdns included
in the base system. But it is not, so this won't happen. But don't let us
start a new license war now.
Greetz
Henning
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