Re: distributing source
[email protected] Sun, 05 Jan 2003 05:12:44 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.qmail.dist |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Yury Bokhoncovich writes: > Hello! Hi > 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. Note I said "not entirely true" :-) SRPMS and BSD ports are fine. I just wanted to make the point that RPMS and packages are allowed if you comply with the var-qmail requirements, since some people seem to think that no binary distributions of qmail are allowed. - Keith