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Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?

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Subject: Re: Why were all DJB's ports removed? No more qmail?
From: Al Lipscomb <arl@q7.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:12:26 -0700
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> 
> Liar. All you have to do is stop trying to screw around with the
> package. Many other distributors---those that consider user happiness
> more important than control---are following the rules.
> 
> > In fact, why don't you just use the BSD licence ?
> 
> http://cr.yp.to/compatibility.html
> 
So Dan says that "compatibility" is critical and that things must be consistant,
but only with his software. What OpenBSD sets as standards do not matter and 
when someone mounts /var as noexec we must consider that someone has required 
us to
put executables there. 

We must also consider that if someone were to tar up their /usr/local and bring 
it
over to a friends house and extract /usr/local/src then they could be violating 
the
terms of Dan's copyright waiver because it does not seem to provide for 
distribution
of the non-archived source code. But that strays.

In the end the math professor, failing to win the argument with logic and sound
reason resorts to inflamatory language. 

Since I would not wish anyone to assume that I were some kind of "play actor" as
Dan likes to use in his name calling, I am going to start removing DJBDNS and 
qmail
from all of my customers machines as soon as I can. While his software may have 
advantages I would not wish them to expose themself to a lawsuit as a result of
using tar, scp or ftp. I have enough of Dan's posts to convince them that I made
a mistake in installing it in the first place.

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