license submission: qmail

[John Cowan]

Brian Behlendorf wrote:

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


Only if they exhibit *exactly* the same behavior as the original.
You can distribute a version localized for another OS or variant,
but you can't distribute a functionally different version.

For example, you could not deliver a binary package that prints
error messages (for humans, not protocol errors) in another
language besides English. You could deliver source patches only,
since they are not derivative works.

On reading the OSD again, I think this violates the second
sentence of #4:  "The license must explicitly permit distribution of 
software built from modified source code."  If "built from" is
interpreted in the ordinary sense of "compiled from", and if
"modified" means "modified in any way" (as opposed to merely
"localized for the environment") then the qmail/djbdns license
does not permit this.

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