qmail inclusion in official release of FC4?

[Paul Howarth]

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.

Paul.