Packages RFC

[rhldevel at assursys.co.uk]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 12:21, Jos Vos wrote:
> > > I doubt qmail is of interest to Fedora, but what about the others? Want
> > > them passed on?
> > 
> > Qmail has a non-Open Source license.
> 
> Allow me to add to that. The Qmail license strictly prohibits
> distribution of modified sources, and the same goes for binaries.

I believe that Debian works around this by distributing the equivalent of a
src.rpm that wget's the qmail source as part of the build process.

> Regards,

Best Regards,
Alex.