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   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>