Re: qmail inclusion in official release of FC4?

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Paul Rennix wrote:
I know there must be some great reason to NOT include qmail + the common
utilities that folks install along with qmail in the FC distro....

just curious what it is..... and if there isn't some legality involved......
why not put it in there?

DJB's license does not allow for distribution of patched versions of qmail in binary format (e.g. RPMs). qmail needs patches to operate in today's mail environment (e.g. to be able to reject rather than bounce unknown users so that worm attacks don't result in backscatter to forged sender addresses) so there's not much point in including it. Anyone that wants it can easily get it in source form and build it themselves.


Paul.


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