Kevin Waterson writes:
> Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> > readme files in the packages or on DJB's site. Russ? could there be a
> > little note about licensing on qmail.org? it's very confusing to a lot of
> > people, especially now that GPL is in the news, it should be strictly
> > mentioned on the page that Qmail and friends are not.
>
> This would be very much appreciated by me for one. I am trying to
> put together a small commercial distro ( another RedHat clone) and
> would like to have qmail as a drop in replacement. What am I
> allowed to use for this and what am I not.
I agree that it's a problem. The copyright status of DJB,
Inc. products is not at all obvious. For example, the permission to
redistribute qmail doesn't come with qmail, you have to go looking on
pobox.com/~djb for it. Other products grant permission to distribute
unmodified copies, but no permission to modify them into binaries.
Other products are in the public domain (e.g. cdb or checkpassword).
And other products are simply copyrighted with NO permission to
redistribute granted at all (e.g. mess822, or libtai).
I would prefer to see a file called COPYRIGHT in each product.
And no, it doesn't really matter what I say on www.qmail.org, because
legal authority can only come from the author. All I could do is open
myself up to legal liability.
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