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

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

The word ``ports'' in the qmail documentation predates BSD-style ports.
It refers to modified versions of the source code.

I don't mind a BSD-style port that simply follows the installation
instructions. I have also explicitly granted permission for the
distribution of precompiled packages that behave correctly. There's
nothing stopping OpenBSD from distributing a qmail package.

Theo de Raadt writes:
> That code has never been free.

When are you going to stop shipping Netscape 4? Hypocrite.

> What he is saying is that licences are granted on a discretionary and
> specific case-by-case basis.

In fact, I said exactly the opposite. My approval of a patch depends
only on the contents of the patch itself.

> And recent versions are completely non-Unixy in the way they mess with
> the system.

Funny. People normally say I'm being _too_ UNIXy. Frankly, I don't care
whether or not anyone thinks it's UNIXy; what I care about is how well
the package actually works.

---Dan