| 1 | Qmail is Copyright 1996, D. J. Bernstein. |
| 2 | -- |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Unfortunately (from SPI's point of view) Dan Bernstein does not include |
| 5 | a conventional licence for qmail, so instead you must examine his published |
| 6 | documentation on the subject to determine your rights to use his software. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | The right to distribute unmodified copies of the qmail-1.01 source is granted |
| 9 | here: |
| 10 | |
| 11 | ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/dist.html |
| 12 | |
| 13 | In addition, Dan will approve distribution of specific binary packages, which |
| 14 | he should have done for the Debian package that contains this file by the time |
| 15 | you get to read it. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | He also states (see ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/softwarelaw.html) |
| 18 | the following: |
| 19 | |
| 20 | What does all this mean for the free software world? Once you've legally |
| 21 | downloaded a program, you can compile it. You can run it. You can modify |
| 22 | it. You can distribute your patches for other people to use. If you think |
| 23 | you need a license from the copyright holder, you've been bamboozled by |
| 24 | Microsoft. As long as you're not distributing the software, you have |
| 25 | nothing to worry about. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Of course, this only applies to people under US jurisdiction, but Dan |
| 28 | claims that similar laws are in effect in most of the countries that |
| 29 | take any notice of copyright, so I suppose that one can assume that |
| 30 | this encapsulates his wishes on the subject. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | Cheers, Phil. |
| 33 | <phil@hands.com> |