Fedora's Official stand on qmail

[Les Mikesell]

Donald Reader wrote:
>
> I have been doing research on qmail and the licensing that it is under
> and have found out that Dan Bernstein has put qmail into the public
> domain as is stated at http://www.qmail.org/not-open-source.html and
> what I would think is his official statement posted at
>  http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html Now between the two pages I am not 
> sure this covers all versions or just the one version. 
> 
> Now the real question is since it is public domain as stated on those
> pages what is fedora's official stand on qmail and is there a
> possibility of Fedora including a qmail package in the future.
> 
> I am not asking which is a better mail package or server just what kind
> of issues there may be that would possibly prevent Fedora from including
> qmail in their distributions.
> 

I hope no one in their right mind would redistribute the stock smptd 
that accepts everything sent to it and then generates bounces to the 
senders if the recipient doesn't exist.  It is not fun when this gets 
hit by a dictionary attack by spammers...

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   Les Mikesell
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