Re: distributing source

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:39:39PM +0600, Yury Bokhoncovich wrote:

>BTW, I guess that SRPMs and BSD ports may be (or not) affected by the 
>following clause only:
>
>"If you want to distribute modified versions of qmail (including ports,
>   no  matter  how minor the changes are) you'll have to get my 
>approval."
>
>The question is what "ports" mean here and how it's relevant or 
>irrelevant to e.g. BSD ports.

It's really not complicated. The license prevents distribution modified
source (compiled or not).

"including ports, no matter how minor the changes are" means you cannot
change the source (and distribute) so it will build on a commodore, etc.

bsdports and srpms are special exceptions because they contain the
original source with patches which are only applied after distribution
(at build time).

so if you want to distribute qmail with your modifications, you must
use a bsdports, srpms or some other package format (possibly your own
scripts) that modifies the source after it has been distributed.

// George

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