license submission: qmail

[Brian Behlendorf]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Matthew C. Weigel wrote:
> Automate patch, and you have a shared source tree.  There is no
> technical limitation to forking, there is simply a higher cost attached
> to the technical possibility.

If you can point me at a vibrant open source community laboring under such
conditions, I'll rest my case; however, I just don't see how it's
possible.  Given the huge # of patches in the qmail community and the
degree of overlap between them and the stability of the underlying
pristine source (djb does somewhere around a release every two years), I'd
expect to see it there, but I don't.

> I think that "...software built from modified source code..." implies
> *binaries* built from modified source code fairly clearly.  Which is
> not allowed.

DJB allows for binaries of modified source to be created, if they meet a
set of conditions.

	Brian