Le dim 26/10/2003 à 21:58, rhldevel(a)assursys.co.uk a écrit :
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:
> 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.
I believe that Debian works around this by distributing the equivalent of a
src.rpm that wget's the qmail source as part of the build process.
Then just redistribute a src.rpm or even a nosrc.rpm only.
Automated remote download during build process is plain ugly (and
dangerous).
Cheers,
--
Nicolas Mailhot