Re: (non)license for distribution of modified packages

[Mark Johnson <johnsonm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 Feb 2008 16:50:54 -0600, Charles Cazabon
<search-web-for-address@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mark Johnson <johnsonm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think the hardcoded uids have to go.
>
> Bruce Guenter came up with a very djb-esque way of doing that, taking the
> various user and group IDs from the owner and group of a set of files (under
> /var/qmail/owners/).  The patch is included in the tarball here:
> http://untroubled.org/qmail+patches/current/

So when is something like that going into netqmail?  I had hoped that
the patch insanity would no longer be necessary once qmail was public
domain.

Granted, I don't think it makes sense to incorporate every patch out
there.  I'm not sure I see the point in having qmail-smtpd support
STARTTLS (whether directly or via signaling tcpserver to switch on
encyption) unless qmail-remote supports it, too.

I don't think everybody is going to agree on what functionality to
add, so, I think a fork or two is inevitable.  I don't think that's
the end of the world.  Horizontal transfer of functionality will occur
where the licenses are compatible.  Those fit to survive will do so.