David Nicol wrote:
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html at this moment in time says:
QUOTE
I hereby place the qmail package (in particular, qmail-1.03.tar.gz,
with MD5 checksum 622f65f982e380dbe86e6574f3abcb7c) into the public
domain. You are free to modify the package, distribute modified
versions, etc.
This does not mean that modifications are encouraged! Please take time
to ensure that your distribution of qmail supports exactly the same
interface as everyone else's. In particular, if you move files, please
set up symbolic links from the original locations, so that you don't
frivolously break scripts that work everywhere else.
END QUOTE
This looks to me like, although he has PD'd the package, he intends to
retain the restrictions on
the qmail brand. I take this notice to mean that one would now be
free to paste snippets of qmail
source code into other projects at will without fear of
copyright-based reprisal.
The "please..." language protecting the qmail mark is pretty weak
though. Which interface does he
mean?
Who knows, but I'd certainly hope that someone would fix the stock smptd
to not back-scatter bounce messages to the generally-forged senders of
messages to recipients that don't exist. Which is probably the big
reason why a lot of people run qpsmtpd.
--
Les Mikesell
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