dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (10/13/87)
Exactly what IS the status of sendmail these days, specifically
the version (5.54?) available via anonymous FTP from ucbarpa?
There is obviously no Berkeley license needed to be signed to
obtain this, although the files contain the standard Berkeley
header regarding the Berkeley license.
There are many situations where having sendmail on a non-BSD system
comes in most useful; specifically, I'm thinking of MH 6.5 which
works fine on a non-BSD system PROVIDED that there is a sendmail
available, but is next to useless otherwise.
Is one limited to running the sendmail from ucbarpa on machines at sites
which have a signed Berkeley 4.X source license? Could someone clarify this?
--
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
dyer@spdcc.COM aka {ihnp4,harvard,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyerrsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (10/13/87)
Eric Allman considers it to be freely distributable; I've seen some sendmail .cf files with his copyright on them, so they'd be bound by his restriction (i.e., go ahead). ATT admits to having no claim to any of the sendmail sources. A UCB person (name withheld to avoid him/her getting flamed; let's just say its a semi-official) says that you can redistribute, just leave the UCB copyright there. I don't know how the UCB copyright (is there one? I haven't seen the source recently) conflicts/superceeds Allman's. Someone told me John Gilmore was trying to get the requisite papers signed to put source on the SUG tape. Questions of size notwithstanding, I'd have no qualms publishing the sources to whatever's in ~ftp/pub at UCB in comp.sources.unix. /r$ -- For comp.sources.unix stuff, mail to sources@uunet.uu.net.