Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:25 -0600, David Nicol wrote: > This looks to me like, although he has PD'd the package, he intends to > retain the restrictions on > the qmail brand. Nonsense. Read Stallman on public domain. -- --gh

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Juerd Waalboer
David Nicol skribis 2007-11-30 13:25 (-0600): > This looks to me like, although he has PD'd the package, he intends to > retain the restrictions on the qmail brand. There appear to no longer be any restrictions. It may not be encouraged to make changes, but it is certainly *allowed*. > The "pleas

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread David Nicol
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 m

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Nov 30, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote: Uh - the very first version of qpsmtpd was almost a line by line port of qmail-smtpd. That is interesting. If it were PD, would you have tried to build an XS interface instead ? Does that even make sense ? What benefit do you imagine it'd

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Chris Lewis
David Nicol wrote: > This looks to me like, although he has PD'd the package, he intends to > retain the restrictions on > the qmail brand. If he's made it PD, he cannot impose any restrictions. The "please" recognizes that fact, and simply expresses a wish that people playing with qmail don't b

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Uh - the very first version of qpsmtpd was almost a line by line port of qmail-smtpd. - ask -- http://develooper.com On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:42, Guy Hulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:18 -0500, Matt Sergeant wrote: On 30-Nov-07, at 11:58 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Guy Hulbert wrote: Is the license change on qmail likely to change the direction of qpsmtpd? Doubtful. Qpsmtpd wasn't written because of a dislike of the license. There have been proposals to extend Qpsmtpd to do more than qmail-smtpd (indeed it already does). This license change makes it u

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Les Mikesell
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,

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:18 -0500, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On 30-Nov-07, at 11:58 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Is the license change on qmail likely to change the direction of > > qpsmtpd? > > Doubtful. Qpsmtpd wasn't written because of a dislike of the license. There have been proposals to ex

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Les Mikesell skribis 2007-11-30 10:58 (-0600): > Is the license change on qmail likely to change the direction of > qpsmtpd? Hmm... qpsmtpd can now be distributed together with qmail. That'd be a nice step towards a scriptable MTA. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, J

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 30-Nov-07, at 11:58 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Is the license change on qmail likely to change the direction of qpsmtpd? Doubtful. Qpsmtpd wasn't written because of a dislike of the license. An interesting move though. Matt.

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread David Nicol
On Nov 30, 2007 7:46 PM, Chris Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Nicol wrote: > > > This looks to me like, although he has PD'd the package, he intends to > > retain the restrictions on the qmail brand. > > If he's made it PD, he cannot impose any restrictions. The "please" > recognizes tha

qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Is the license change on qmail likely to change the direction of qpsmtpd? (Now you can fix it instead of replacing parts...). http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Nov 30, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Is the license change on qmail likely to change the direction of qpsmtpd? (Now you can fix it instead of replacing parts...). This means that (net-)qmail can get bundled up as regular components / options in the various distributions and w

Re: qmail license change

2007-11-30 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:55 -0800, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > Uh - the very first version of qpsmtpd was almost a line by line port > of qmail-smtpd. That is interesting. If it were PD, would you have tried to build an XS interface instead ? Does that even make sense ? > > - ask -- --gh