Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:22:54 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: qmail, DJB licensing Message-ID: <20041007152254.GL7398@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <41655E51 DOT 4040005 AT x-ray DOT at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41655E51.4040005@x-ray.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:18:41PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >What are the isues about qmail license restrictions now? > >Most know that it's vastly "superior" over other MTA's. >(i.e. people tend to like it more) >E.g. sourceware uses qmail > http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#what-software > >I see in the thread around > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01651.html, >that qmail has no acceptable license to include it into cygwin, >because it cannot be guaranteed that it will work reliably on that >"crappy platform" (simplified). Maybe just with dropping vpopmail support. > >Still the last word? >Maybe provide a source package only? Igor suggested such a trick, but >then the thread drifted into something completely different. (RPM >support, ant, ...) > >Sergey's original porting thread > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01593.html >also drifted into something completely different. (mysql server) > >Still waiting on DJB's approval? It's vanishingly unlikely that we'll get DJB's approval. You might check into how the netqmail does this: http://www.qmail.org/netqmail/ They don't seem to offer binaries, so I assume the licensing problems still exist. Why not concentrate on sendmail or postfix instead? These days, I don't think qmail has anything over postfix. I use all three and prefer postfix. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/