Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> An OSI-approved Open Source license...And RMS (Richard M. Stallman)
Note that many things are good and right, though unblessed by OSI and
Richard "Source code for the workers or we shoot you" Stalin.
Qmail's restrictions may be a "moral" downer for some. However, in a
practical sense the restrictions don't prevent any desired use of
qmail--except including a forked qmail in distributions.
Note, too, that Dan seems to define "forking" differently than Eric
Raymond. Changing the locations of vital files (usually for no
particular reason) counts with Dan as a "fork". This may not matter
for atomic programs, but for complete systems, like qmail, it does.
As Dan pointed out before (and I hadn't realized till then), the author
is responsible for supporting his product on every OS that runs it--RedHat
and Debian, but also FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX and Unixware.
Dan doesn't want to be ``faced with a support nightmare---forever'', and
I can't say I blame him.
Len.
