> > Also i'd appreciate to get read-only access to some cvs of qmail-ldap and to
> > changelogs...
>
> unfortunately qmail's license makes this impossible :-((
Damn, that topic again. :-(
Has someone considered taking qmail's design and re-implementing it under a
more open licence?
I understand that qmail's design is well done and secure, so i don't want to
throw that away, but in order for extending a software i need a more open
licence - sure this extending is something Dj did not want...
As i understand his licence, it is supposed to assure a maximum level of
compatibility.
Also qmail's design is already heavily modified by qmail-ldap.
(The patch is already half the size of the qmail source archive)
And there are a lot of wishlist items,
including the hashing of badrcptto, badmailfrom etc.
Of course it will be hard to get together enough programmers with free time
in order to rewrite qmail. (and which don't say that theres exim and postfix
and why start rewriting qmail if you could modify these)
But due to the modular structure of qmail, one could even start by rewriting
just single programs out of the qmail hierarchy.
So we could actually start by replacing qmail-lspawn with a complete
reimplementation which tries delivery via LDAP, if that fails passes on to
qmail's lspawn for compatible delivery.
This would keep the patch to the original qmail sources at a minimum.
Greetings,
Erich
