Re: distributing source

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 07:55:02 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.dist
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Pawel Niewiadomski <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know, I wanted to allow anyone to access CVS with qmail source which
> is changed by me (to allow them get the newest version, check changes, etc.)
> Now I think I will allow only registered users and made patches available,
> as I understand this will be correct with DJB's thinking, am I rigth?

djb doesn't care whether your users are "registered" or not; he only cares
about how you're distributing source.  He gives you permission to distribute a
specific unmodified compressed tar file /and nothing else/.  So a cvs tree of
a modified qmail is definitely not allowed.

Charles
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