Is there a way to fork QMail and make it a side project of Fedora?
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 12:21, Jos Vos wrote:
I doubt qmail is of interest to Fedora, but what about the others?
Want
them passed on?
Qmail has a non-Open Source license.
Allow me to add to that. The Qmail license strictly prohibits distribution of modified sources, and the same goes for binaries. This makes distribution of qmail for modern-day systems downright impossible, since Qmail does not compile at all on gcc-3.x. There is a patch that works around this problem, but, of course, one is not allowed to distribute binaries with this patch applied, so distributing legal binaries for a gcc-3 based system is therefore impossible. If this sounds nuts -- it is.
(e.g. see http://linux.duke.edu/~icon/misc/qmail/debacle.html for a very lively conversation that I had with the qmail-dist list when I was looking to become a distributor myself. There are some real pearls in there).
Due to its murky and restrictive license, I'm pretty sure that Qmail will never appear in Fedora Core.
I myself would like to get out of distributing it, but that involves a migration effort. :)
Regards,
Konstantin Riabitsev icon@linux.duke.edu Linux@DUKE
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