Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe he'd think about changing dist.html. After he changed it,
> could I then continue distributing this package without fear of
> being sued?
If the new dist.html said no, then it would seem clear that you
couldn't. This is not an ambiguity in the current or potential future
dist.html, but I think I see your point now: you want to know what you
will *always* be allowed to do with qmail, not just what you are
allowed to do today. (Right?)
Well, barring future changes in copyright law (which could potentially
invalidate *any* statement we might make today), you will always be
allowed to patch, compile, back up, and run qmail. You will always be
allowed to distribute your patches, since you hold copyright on them
(I think). Additionally, you can redistribute vanilla qmail today.
You do not have the guarantee that you will always be allowed to
redistribute qmail, but this is not ambiguous - it's clearly, if
implicitly, unspecified. If you agree with this but call it
"ambiguous" instead of "unspecified", then I guess we'll just have to
be more careful how we use such words to avoid confusion.
paul
