Re: distributing source

[email protected] Sun, 05 Jan 2003 05:12:44 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.dist
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