license submission: qmail

[Brian Behlendorf]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, John Cowan wrote:
> 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.

Is that disallowed by the OSD?  In spirit, perhaps, but that's my whole
point: the OSD needs to better map to what people expect it to be, and
either be a lot more precise or give up some of the exceptions which
create more edge cases than they solve.

> 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.

I can modify it to fix a bug which crops up under certain conditions and
causes a core dump, which doesn't change its behavior, it just makes it
more robust.  I can then build that, and create a var-qmail package, and
redistribute that, under DJB's terms.

	Brian