More licensing questions, re: Re: Email servers

The distribution one gets me too.  For example, suppose my organization has
100 smtp servers running Qmail which need the smtp auth and other patches.
By the logic here, I am required to apply each patch to each server
separatly, not apply the patches to a central source repository and then
merely compile on each server.  It makes management of patches more than a
little harder.

This is OK, because Qmail is freeware distributed in source form, rather
than Free/Open Source software, in that the source is available but not
open.  It is DBJ's right, but I am considering going to Postfix instead for
anything requiring more than a vanilla installation.  (For bastion hosts,
closed relays, etc. Qmail is still my preferred system.)  By the same token,
I use djbdns for my external dns servers, but BIND for the internal DNS as
it is more extensible and more standards complient.  For example with the
new MIT Kerberos that supports SRV record lookups, etc. I can do things with
BIND that simply cannot be done with djbdns.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Jackman" <[email protected]>
To: "Paul Jarc" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: Email servers


> Paul Jarc wrote:
> > It's not always clear what is "distribution"
> This is the biggest hole in djb's so-called licence agreement. My
> argument is that there are plenty of ways around this and so all djb's
> terms do is cause confusion and suffering for innocent users and a
> unreasonable amount of aggravation for those who provide their services
> here free of charge. We the community are in effect paying for djb's
> 'licence' every single time the issue gets raised. We pay in time and
> bandwidth and no doubt in sweat. It is time the community stood up and
> took advice as to the legality of this 'licence' and then published the
> results here for all to see.
>
> I will pay $100 towards the fund for a lawyer to examine the licence, as
> long as we agree on the lawyer and his results cover a) USA b) Europe,
> c) Rest of the World and as long as we agree that his findings are
> published here.
> - Andy.
>
>