Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kalle Kivimaa wrote: >> in my opinion the new [qmail] license is DFSG-free. > > There ain't no new license. DJB simply retracted his copyright. As of > now, anyone can copy the qmail 1.03 code, make modifications at will, > claim copyright for those modifications, and distribute the whole under > any license they wish (or none at all, contributing their modifications > to the public domain as well).
There's a thereotical open question as to whether you can do that in Europe (I think that was the jurisdiction with additional moral rights for authors), but I think we can take a statement that the source is public domain as a license to do all of those things even in jurisdictions where releasing copyrighted work into the public domain isn't strictly possible. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
