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qmail released into the public domain

Posted Nov 30, 2007 20:08 UTC (Fri) by lovelace (guest, #278)
In reply to: qmail released into the public domain by mbottrell
Parent article: qmail released into the public domain

At least now Linux distros will be able to ship the damn thing.

You're assuming they would want to.

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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.