RE: Where is the qmail Licence?

Buy Microsoft Exchange 2003.  At least then you know you can't legally
distribute or modify it.
;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Louwers [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Where is the qmail Licence?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:38:03AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Frank Louwers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Not at all.  Spend a few hours reading the other documents at
cr.yp.to;
> > > other, legal questions are answered by asking a lawyer, not djb.
> > 
> > Yes, well. I've had my lawyer take at look at djb's sites a while ago.
> > My lawyer said the are completely unclear, non-enforcable under Belgian
> > law, and advised me not to do anything with this software :) I ignored
> > his advise ...
> 
> Hmmm.  If you don't trust the advice of your lawyer, perhaps you should
get a
> different lawyer.

Except for the "dist.html" file, every document relates to examples,
laws, reports, ... under US law. Contrary to what quite some .us people
think, US law != international law != BE law. 

 
> If the client has a legal copy of qmail already (i.e. downloaded it, or
you
> provided an unmodified tarball), and all you do is modify his copy for
him,
> that would appear to be the client paying you to modify his copy, which is
a
> right your client has according to djb.

what if I provide client with:
- unmodified tarball
- full source of patches
- Makefile to turn the unmodified tarball + the source of the patches
  into a binary package
- modified binary package

but I install the modified bin package directly?

What if the client doesn't own the server? What if I sell the server +
setup to the client? What if I sell the server + the setup on 2 separate
invoices?

Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers

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