Re: distributing source

Hello!

On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 [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: 

Agreed with sentense about ready binaries.
But I said about SRPMs. In the long run there's a way to do it:
I may do my patches and distribute it to other people (see 
http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html )
So I may distribute spec file and patches anyway, right?
And SRPM is just a useful way to do this, it is not a binary distribution,
an end user MUST compile and install it before actual use,
SRPM contains valid qmail tarball with the proper MD5 checksum so where is 
the issue?
 
>  "You are permitted to distribute a precompiled var-qmail package if (1) 

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