Re: distributing source

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:50:56AM -0500, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Frank Louwers wrote:
> 
> > What is a "standard binary qmail package"?
> 
> Read DJB's explicit definition.

url? Afaik, there is no explicit definition of the terms:

- distributing
- modified
- standard binary qmail package

Do you have a URL?

> > My "modified" stuff doesn't need to modify the source (except for "the
> > filesystem synchronous mount" thingie),
> 
> That's modifying the source. I would consider that change optional.

Well, it is needed on most systems, but that's a detail...

> 
> > If you are saying that if I don't modify the source (the
> > .c,.h,Makefiles/whatever), but modify the install scripts, the default
> > config files etc, I can still "distribute" my package to the servers I
> > admin, then you've made me a very man.
> 
> "a very man"? I guess.

a very happy man.

To resume, to the best of your knowledge, if I:

- don't modify the source files
- but do modify the config files (/var/qmail/control/*, the tcpserver
  config scripts, the start/stop/logging scripts)
- make a binary debian package of that
- put that somewhere on one server, not publicly available

Then I am allowed to install that binary package on all servers I admin,
even if I am not the owner of the box.

> I con't tell you what you can do or not do. DJB already has.

Well, DJB left some details not very clear, and doesn't seem to answer
mails.

Kind Regards,
Frank Louwers

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