Why move away from qmail, so what if it don't ship in debian as a
precompiled binary in deb format. It is not that difficult to run
apt-get install qmail-src ; build-qmail
:)
-----Original Message-----
From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2000 7:56
Subject: Re: [SLUG] name server weirdness
>Russell Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> If you are complaining that you can't hack this software and release it
>> _under the same name_, then you better remove all that GNU software you
>> have as well.
>
>Crap. If all we had to do was to change the name, then qmail would've been
>part of Debian ages ago and we wouldn't have spent the huge amount of
effort
>to convert our main server away from qmail. Read this from
>http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html:
>
>: If you want to distribute modified versions of qmail (including ports, no
>: matter how minor the changes are) you'll have to get my approval. This
does
>: not mean approval of your distribution method, your intentions, your
e-mail
>: address, your haircut, or any other irrelevant information. It means a
>: detailed review of the exact package that you want to distribute.
>
>I don't see anything about allowing the distribution of a modified qmail
>under a different name.
>
>And if you still think this is OK, well just ask yourself what a
distributor
>can do when the next security hole comes along and Dan is not in a position
>of releasing a patch (on a safari trip, perhaps?).
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