Re: distributing source

Charles Cazabon writes:
 > 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.

He's not distributing it to the public.  He's only distributing it
internally to the members of his organization.  Surely you don't mean
to say that a corporation cannot put qmail into a CVS server, only
accessible to employees of the corporation.  Or that a corporation
cannot distribute tarballs of qmail pre-patched with selected
patches.  So why discriminate against an unincorporated organization?

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