From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 12:02:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C8F416A4B3 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from updegrove.net (12-246-251-12.client.attbi.com [12.246.251.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 419A043FF9 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:02:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsdstable@updegrove.net) Received: (qmail 92298 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2003 19:02:32 -0000 Received: from adsl-64-166-46-11.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net (HELO updegrove.net) (64.166.46.11) by updegrove.net with SMTP; 19 Sep 2003 19:02:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3F6B5340.30601@updegrove.net> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:04:32 -0700 From: Rick Updegrove User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org References: <20030918152942.5c7163df.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030918152942.5c7163df.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mail selection options in sysinstall(8). X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:02:20 -0000 Tom Rhodes wrote: >Greetings, > >This is just a quick note that the MTA installation options in >sysinstall(8) has changed. Users now have the option of choosing >between Sendmail, Postfix, and Exim. > >Due to legal issues, qmail was not added to the selection. Sorry. > > > Could you please elaborate on these "legal issues"? http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html says If you want to distribute modified versions of qmail (including ports, no matter how minor the changes are) you'll have to get my approval. This does not mean approval of your distribution method, your intentions, your e-mail address, your haircut, or any other irrelevant information. It means a detailed review of the exact package that you want to distribute. Exception: You are permitted to distribute a precompiled var-qmail package if (1) installing the package produces /exactly/ the same /var/qmail hierarchy as a user would obtain by downloading, compiling, and installing qmail-1.03.tar.gz, fastforward-0.51.tar.gz, and dot-forward-0.71.tar.gz; (2) the package behaves correctly, i.e., the same way as normal qmail+fastforward+dot-forward installations on all other systems; and (3) the package's creator warrants that he has made a good-faith attempt to ensure that the package behaves correctly. It is not acceptable <../compatibility.html> to have qmail working differently on different machines; any variation is a bug. If there's something about a system (compiler, libraries, kernel, hardware, whatever) that changes qmail's behavior, then that platform is /not/ supported, and you are /not/ permitted to distribute binaries.