qmail inclusion in official release of FC4?

[Kevin Fries]

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Paul Howarth wrote:
| 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.

Besides, With both Postfix and Sendmail in the package, you need to
watch on space.  Fedora only reluctantly went to a 4th CD.  Distros like
Mandrake are struggling with the same dilemma.  How many options do you
need of software that does the same exact thing.

Add to that DJB's licensing restrictions, and I would expect to see Exim
in Fedora long before qmail.

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Kevin Fries
Network Administrator
Hydrologic Consultants, Inc of Colorado
(303) 969-8033    FAX: (303) 969-8357
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