Re: distributing source

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:20:18AM -0500, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Frank Louwers wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:03:07AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> > > no need to address me off list. I'm not authority.
> > > 
> > > You should have no problems. All you have to remember is don't start
> > > modifying the core. Just write scripts to modify the core and populate
> > > the servers with the original source and your scripts, and build.
> > 
> > So I need to build them on each server? I can't just build one package
> > and install that on all my servers?
> 
> What's your definition of distributing a binary package?

As I said a couple of mails ago: 

- I have to maintain a couple of servers, most belonging to my company,
  but a few belonging to customers.

- I am slowly migrating most of these boxes from sendmail to
  qmail+messagewall+vmailmgr.

- So I have 'tuned' the setup a bit to preconfigure qmail for
  messagewall and everything.

- I build debian binary packages with our custom setup in. Please note
  that those packages are "for internal use only", and available to the
  outside world.

- I wanted to put those packages on a password protected site, login to
  all boxes, fetch the packages (binary) and install them.

After rereading the qmail license, I understand this would not be a
problem for our own boxes, but technicly, it could  be considered
'distributing' for the clients boxes. Please note that I (and my staff)
are the only ones having root access to our clients boxes ...

My question is quite simpel: am I allowed to do what I intended or do I
realy have to build these packages on every single machine?

Vriendelijke groeten,
Frank Louwers

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