Re: Where is the qmail Licence?

Frank Louwers writes:
 > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:15:43PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
 > > Frank Louwers writes:
 > >  > 1) The terms are not clear
 > > 
 > > Dan's terms are quite clear: you can distribute unmodified source.
 > > You can distribute binaries if they're the same binaries that a user
 > > would get by running 'make setup check' against unmodified source.
 > 
 > according to half this group, I (as a contractor for another company)
 > can install modified binaries on a clients server. According to the

"If you want to distribute modified versions of qmail (including ports,
no matter how minor the changes are) you'll have to get my approval."

Do you have djb's approval?

It sounds like you don't.  Therefor, you don't have permission, and
these people are wrong.

 > other half, I can't, unless I manually patch and download and compile on
 > the actual client server. 

Right, because that's not distribution of modified binaries.

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