Re: approved patches

Paul Jarc <[email protected]> wrote:
> Toni Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > fwiw, on the netqmail page there is a statement that DJB has approved
> > this patch in a wording which I took to mean that he has explicitly
> > given permission for this package, including that patch, to be
> > distributed.
> 
> I didn't interpret it that way.  Does anyone have a reference to the
> original statement by DJB?

I recall reading a message (typical 1-line followup by djb) that said
something like "That's how I would do it; the next version of qmail will
likely include this", but since it didn't quote any of the message discussing
it, it's hard to find the original.

The closest I have in my archive easily found is this message from djb, from
January 1999:

> Timothy L. Mayo writes:
> > Currently, if someone writes a qmail-queue wrapper they must call it
> > qmail-queue and the next install of qmail will overwrite the wrapper.
>
> Noted. The best suggestion I've seen for reconfiguring the qmail-queue
> location is a $QMAILQUEUE environment variable in the internal qmail.c
> library; this will affect all programs that call qmail-queue.
> 
> ---Dan

Charles
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