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qmail released into the public domain
qmail released into the public domain
Posted Nov 30, 2007 14:34 UTC (Fri) by mbottrell (guest, #43008)Parent article: qmail released into the public domain
meh... something Daniel should have done a long time ago. Release into PD or even under a GNU GPL license. At least now Linux distros will be able to ship the damn thing. Whilst Qmail was nice (though you had to patch the hell outta it to get it to a workable solution), it has long since been moved on by many to something that's supported outta the box by their distro of choice. Too late, too bad.
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qmail released into the public domain
Posted Nov 30, 2007 15:36 UTC (Fri) by lkundrak (guest, #43452) [Link]
In my humble opinion he shouldn't ever release his software to public, in any form :)
qmail released into the public domain
Posted Nov 30, 2007 20:08 UTC (Fri) by lovelace (subscriber, #278) [Link]
At least now Linux distros will be able to ship the damn thing.
You're assuming they would want to.
qmail released into the public domain
Posted Dec 1, 2007 10:14 UTC (Sat) by djpig (subscriber, #18768) [Link]
At least now Linux distros will be able to ship the damn thing.You're assuming they would want to.
I'm fairly certain there are enough qmail users still out there so that someone will care enough to put it into Debian (and Ubuntu universe etc.). It will probably not end up in the default install of any distro or something like that.