On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 10:27:22 +0800 Christopher Chan <cchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> typed with great determination:
what license? DJB does not believe in licensing.
I cannot believe that people actually come out and complain about what
they can or cannot do with somebody's work.
Well, I didn't complain per se about what can or can not be done with the work. I don't use the work, but if I did, I wouldn't have a problem with it then now would I?
You did say you find DJB's license quite unreasonable.
Secondly, once you state what can or can not be done with something, I'm thinkin' that's a license. It may not even be on a piece of paper, but it's still a license. A license is after all, Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act. This is especially true if it is a formal permission from proper authorities (in this case the writer of said software) to do a certain act (or not do a certain act).
Is this not correct? I would think so.
Alex
Hmm. That is the dictionary definition of the word license.
So you don't like the limited way in which you are allowed to distribute qmail. How can anybody judge a person because he limits the ways you are allowed to distribute his work or even to use his work like most of the other software available?
