Re: distributing source

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:43:07PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Yury Bokhoncovich writes:
> >Though it's OK freely to distribute your patches. I.e. SRPMs and FreeBSD 
> >ports are OK, RPMs and packages are not.
> 
> This is not entirely true. RPMs and packages are allowed as long as they 
> produce exactly the same setup as would be achieved by downloading, 
> compiling and installing the pristine sources: 
> 
> "You are permitted to distribute a precompiled var-qmail package if (1) 
> installing the package produces exactly the same /var/qmail hierarchy as a 
> user would obtain by downloading, compiling, and installing 
> qmail-1.03.tar.gz, fastforward-0.51.tar.gz, and dot-forward-0.71.tar.gz; (2) 
> 
> the package behaves correctly, i.e., the same way as normal 
> qmail+fastforward+dot-forward installations on all other systems; and (3) 
> the package's creator warrants that he has made a good-faith attempt to 
> ensure that the package behaves correctly." 
> 

I have a related question about that.

I maintain a few servers, both ours, and at a clients site, some of
which are ours, some belong to our clients.

We made a few debian packages (basicly from the "official" debian qmail
source), with a few modifications in (we use messagewall as a virus/spam
blocker, we use vmailmgr for the pops, ...).

Theoreticly, when I build that package, login to a client's machine and
install that package, I am 'distributing', so I am in violation of the
license.

Is this correct? What should I do in such a case? Rebuild the package on
each machine? Make a "compliant" package and install that first, then
make another package that prepares it for messagewall, vmailmgr, ...?

Please advise...


Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers

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